Jaipur: A baby boy delivered inside a toilet of a train by a woman slipped through the flush pipe and fell on railway track but survived miraculously in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district, a railway police official said Monday.
“The incident occurred late on Sunday night in Dabli Rathan in Hanumangarh when a pregnant woman who was travelling on Barmer Kalka Express from Suratgarh to Hanumangarh with her mother and husband went to toilet after getting labour pains. She delivered a baby boy in the toilet and the newborn slipped through the pipe and fell on the railway track,” a GRP official told IANS.
“The woman, because of heavy bleeding, became unconscious. She was taken off the train in Hanumangarh, which was the next station, eight km from the delivery site and was taken to a hospital,” the official said
Meanwhile, the guard of a Food Corporation of India warehouse near the railway station, passing the spot, heard the baby crying. He informed railway authorities at Dabli Rathan which passed the message to Hanumangarh station. The baby was rescued and was taken to the same hospital where he was reunited with his mother.
The child’s mother, Bhuri Kalbi, 33, was travelling with relatives on an overnight train when she went to the bathroom shortly before midnight on Tuesday in India. Mother Bhuri Kalbi prematurely gave birth to her little girl when she was on a train toilet in India
She unexpectedly gave birth to a baby girl and passed out from the pain. Her amazed brother-in-law, Arjun Kumar, found her in the toilet two stations later covered in blood after investigating why she was taking so long.
He explained: “She fell unconscious and the baby fell through the toilet. Two stations later, we knocked at the door. “When we asked her about what happened, she said the baby had fallen through on to the tracks.”
Toilets that open directly on to the tracks are a common feature of Indian trains. Kumar said that after finding Bhuri, relatives pulled the train’s emergency brake and told railway officials what had happened. A search was quickly organised, and guards at one of the stations the train had passed soon found the baby, who miraculously had survived.
Doctors were amazed the little girl survived nearly two hours after falling onto train tracks
“She was on the rail track for almost two hours,” said Dr. Gautam Jain, a pediatrician at Rajasthan Hospital in Ahmadabad, in the western state of Gujarat, where the baby and mother were taken. The child, who has not yet been named, was eight to ten weeks premature and weighed only 1.46kg (3.22lb).
She had a low heart rate and body temperature. “We do not expect such children to survive,” Dr Jain said.
