RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, June 30: Going beyond the call of duty, a team of Railway Protection Force (RPF) on Wednesday night helped a woman deliver a baby at the Ranchi Railway Station.
The team launched ‘Operation Matrishakti’ as it came to know that the woman passenger was suffering from labour pain and needed immediate attention.
The team called a doctor and rushed to the station to ensure the safe delivery of the woman. Later, they shifted the lady with her newborn baby to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) for better care.
The mother identified herself as Parimila Oraon, a resident of Syco in Lohardaga.
The team which remained involved in the operation included ASI B Prasad, and SI Priyanka Kumari besides other RPF staff including S.K.Ram, Kumari Anjana, Sheetal and Sudipt Parui.
Earlier on June 7, a woman passenger delivered a baby at Hatia railway station with the support of a woman RPF constable. The result was the outcome of ‘Operation Matrishakti’.
The operation also hogged the limelight. It started after RPF Hatia received information that a pregnant lone woman with a one-year-old child was travelling in coach number D6 of train number 13426 (Surat Malda Express) just before the train arrived at Hatia station. The first contractions are becoming very intense.
RPF Hatia’s SI Suraj Rajbansi, ASI PK Singh, constable DN. Yadav, and female employees Sarika Singh and Nidhi Kumari, together with the Railway Doctor team, rushed to the aforementioned coach where the woman gave birth to a healthy kid under the observation of the Railway Doctor, Meri Saheli Team, and RPF Hatia.
The female passenger identified herself as Sunita Rajak, 30 years old, and her husband’s name as Umesh Rajak, a resident of Panagarh in the Burdwan district of West Bengal.
