MUMBAI: Four quick thinking railway cops rushed to the aid of a pregnant woman who started to have labour pain at the Dadar railway station recently. The cops roped in coolies and created a stretcher out of bedsheets to rush her to an ambulance parked outside the station. The woman later give birth to a baby girl at a public hospital.
The incident was reported around 5.50pm on July 13. Rukhsar Khan, 36, a Mumbra resident, got off a ladies coach of a Central Railway local at Dadar station’s platform no. 3 and started experiencing labour pain. She quickly sat down in a corner of the platform. A couple of female GRP personnel noticed her. They summoned their male counterparts and a decision was made to carry her to the ambulance without waiting for a stretcher. Two coolies were roped in and the group tied bedsheets together to carry her. CCTVs on the platform captured the group taking her in this manner to am ambulance parked outside platform no. 6.
She was rushed to the KEM Hospital where she delivered a baby girl. Her sister-in-law, Aarika, was by her side at the hospital and the family thanked the police.
