Malkangiri: A woman gave birth to a child while she was being taken on a cot to an ambulance in Chepulpara in Malkangiri district Tuesday morning as the ambulance could not reach her doorstep owing to poor road conditions.
Ambulances often fail to reach doorsteps in time in remote areas of Odisha as motorable roads are still missing and the worst sufferers are often expectant mothers.
Sources said relatives contacted village ASHA worker the moment Dhabulu Majhi’s wife Kandri Majhi got labour pains. The ASHA worker advised the relatives to admit her to the Community Health Centre after which her husband contacted ambulance service.
But the ambulance could not reach them because there was no road to the village.
Family members tried to carry the woman on a cot but Kandri delivered a baby on the way. The mother and baby were carried on the cot for 7-km before the ambulance took them to Khairput Primary Health Centre.
PNN
