Woman gives birth on railway platform at Old Delhi station

New Delhi: 18th June 2012

As a crowd watched on, a 30-year-old woman went into labour at a platform in Old Delhi railway station and delivered a baby in the open a halfhour later without any medical help — showing up the unpreparedness of the railways in dealing with such emergencies even in the capital. When a heavily pregnant Kamlesh reached the railway station around 2.30pm on Friday to go to her in-laws’ place in Uttar Pradesh, little did she know that platform number 13 would become her delivery room and she would end up giving birth in full public view. 

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