Nurse Minu Bhaisare delivers baby on Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express
A nurse on the Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express ended up delivering a baby in the middle of the night after a passenger, Anjum Bano Wasim Akhtar, went into labor while traveling with her kids.
With no doctor around and help not immediately available, nurse Minu Bhaisare stepped up at 2am to handle the emergency.
Nurse sanitized knife to cut cord
Passengers turned a lower berth into a mini delivery room using bedsheets for privacy.
With only first-aid kit basics, Bhaisare sanitized a passenger's knife with hand sanitizer to cut the umbilical cord and used thread from the mother to tie it off.
Both mom and baby were taken to the Rural Hospital at Chalisgaon station and are now stable. Later, Bhaisare said trains should have better medical supplies for situations like this.
Her calm under pressure has earned lots of praise.