Pic: Yashodhara Bangera

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Oct 29: There have been reports of women bound for hospitals for delivery giving birth to children in ambulances. In two days, two women gave birth to babies in the district.

A woman from Kinnikambla village, Vanitha, was going in an ambulance at around 7 pm on Friday October 27 when she delivered a baby near the international airport here, in Kenjar village. The delivery was without any complications, and the mother and her male baby are hale and healthy, reports said.

The ambulance staff immediately took her to primary health centre at Bajpe and proceeded to Lady Goschen Hospital after she was provided emergency care there.

In the other incident which happened on Saturday morning, Chandravathi, wife of Sathish from Anegudde in Daregudde village near Moodbidri was being taken to the community centre at Moodbidri in 108 ambulance, when she went into labour and gave birth to female baby. Emergency medical technician in the ambulance, Padmavati Arisinamakki, and ambulance driver, Malatesh, worked together to help the woman.

In this case too, both the woman and her child are in good health, hospital sources said.