LUCKNOW: A timely intervention by an ASHA worker and a railway staff’s spouse, helped a pregnant passenger in labour pain to deliver a baby at Jaunpur city railway station in the absence of a medical team and ambulance on Sunday afternoon.
Anjali Devi (30) was traveling to Lucknow in S1 coach of Farraka Express from Bhagalpur along with her husband. At around noon, she developed labor pain and was alighted at Jaunpur city station in a stretcher by a railway staff, however there was delay in ambulance arrival and no medical staff was available because of it being an intermediate station.