The baby girl delivered in the ambulance to the farm labourer
SURAT: A pregnant woman who had tested positive for Covid-19 delivered a healthy baby girl in a 108 EMRI ambulance on Monday while being taken to New Civil Hospital in Surat from Bardoli.
The patient is a 23-yearold farm labourer. The 108 staff oversaw the delivery and tended to her in the ambulance.
The woman had been brought to a hospital in Bardoli for delivery after she got labour pains on Sunday. She tested Covid-19 positive at the time of admission.
The 108 team of Twinkle Patel, emergency medical technician, and Tejas Chaudhary, ambulance driver, were taking her to New Civil Hospital on Monday. About a kilometre from the hospital, the woman started getting labour pains again. Patel, dressed in PPE, helped to deliver the child.