A medical student helps pregnant woman deliver baby onboard Secunderabad Durantho express

A final year medical student from private institute Gitam Medical college helped a pregnant woman to deliver a baby onboard Secunderabad Durantho express train in the early hours of Tuesday.

According to reports, the 28-year-old pregnant woman from Srikakulam went into premature labour while travelling in Durantho Express. This was the first pregnancy of the woman. Seeing the condition, 23-year-old medical student K Swathi Reddy, travelling in the same coach, immediately helped the pregnant woman deliver the baby. The delivery was premature, but the baby girl and her mother are in good health.

Passengers also helped them by offering their blankets to wrap the child. Several passengers also helped in performing delivery by converting the compartment into a makeshift delivery room


Swathi Reddy is a final-year MBBS student at GIMSR (Gitam Institute of Medical Sciences).

According to the ToI report, the incident happened in the Three-tier AC bogie. Labour pains started at around 3.30 am and somebody asked for the help of a doctor at 4.40am. The baby was born at 5.35am. The pregnant woman and her husband, who is a private company employee in Hyderabad, were going to their native place Srikakulam as the delivery date was near.

"I was worried a lot and also fear gripped because this is the first delivery that I performed on my own. Earlier, I assisted professors in the hospital. Initially, I was worried and also afraid because the placenta had not come out for 45 minutes. I was relieved when the baby came out," Medical student told ToI.

When the train stopped at Anakapalli station, the mother and newborn were shifted to NTR government hospital where the baby girl was put in an incubator.

The medical student accompanied the mother and child to the hospital.