Dubai: Going beyond her call of duty, a female police officer helped a destitute pregnant woman deliver a baby on the roadside, in the Indian city of Mumbai, earlier this week. Twitter users are hailing the cop and her team, for how they took things in their own hands after getting a call for help, as it was impossible for an ambulance to reach, due to heavy rains and flooding in parts of Mumbai.
Tweep @VallabhMIRROR posted: “Two policewomen helped a homeless woman deliver a baby in the dead of the night on footpath even as torrential rainfall lashed Mumbai. The police shielded the mother and the newly born baby in heavy rains for hours till the ambulance arrived.”
Reportedly, as rains lashed the city during the early hours of Sunday, sub-inspector Priya Garud was on check post duty when she got a call about a destitute woman crying out for help near Metro cinema.
Garud and her staff rushed to the spot and found that the 35-year-old woman, who is mentally challenged, was experiencing acute labour pains, an official said, according to a new report by the Press Trust of India (PTI).
When the personnel saw that the woman didn’t even have proper clothes, they went to a nearby house to borrow some clothes and bedsheets.
At a time when police and medical services grapple with the spread of COVID-19 in the state of Maharashtra, heavy rains and flooded roads are making it even more difficult for ambulances to reach patients immediately. So, Garud ran to the state-run hospital nearby, where the doctors asked her to get the patient to the hospital. However, by the time she returned to the spot, she found that the woman had already delivered the infant.
Reportedly, the personnel tried their best to keep the woman and the baby safe as they waited for an ambulance. When the ambulance finally arrived after over an hour-long wait, the woman and her baby were shifted to a nearby hospital and both are doing well, a senior official confirmed.
Tweeps saluted both the cop and her staff. Twitter page @SPsofIndia posted: “@MumbaiPolice once again proved to be more than #regularcops by showcasing the exemplary deed of aiding a 35 year old destitute woman in her delivery. Saute to SI Priya Garud, and constable Asmita Jadhav for their help amid heavy rainfall and the #COVID-19 crisis.”
And, @sitblogs tweeted: “Thank You @MumbaiPolice. Police helped poor woman deliver baby on roadside in Mumbai while waiting for ambulance.”
