A 26-year-old tribal woman gave birth to a girl child on a muddy pathway in the midst of the reserve forest in Nayakaneri hillock near Ambur town, Tirupattur, after she experienced severe labour pain while being transported to hospital in an 108 ambulance, on Thursday.
Health officials at the government hospital in Ambur said that it was around 8.30 a.m. when they received a call from the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) worker in the hillock who informed that M. Vijaya belonging to the Malayali tribe in Pannakattueri, a tribal hamlet atop the hillock, was experiencing labour pain.
Immediately, an 108 ambulance manned by Peer Mohammed Ismail, a medical technician, was dispatched to the hamlet, which is around 15 kms away from the hospital. The ambulance reached the hamlet at 9 a.m. to pick up Vijaya, accompanied by her husband K. Subramani, a mason.
