Pregnant Woman Rushed To Hospital On Tractor After Ambulance Fails To Turn Up

In Uttar Pradesh's Agra, a pregnant woman was forced to travel on a tractor due to a scarcity of ambulance services in the district hospital. Her ordeal was captured in a viral video.

The video from Uttar Pradesh’s Agra shows the pregnant woman being rushed to the hospital after getting her bed off of the tractor.

In the video, a bedridden pregnant woman can be seen taken to the hospital after getting her bed off of the tractor with the help of her relatives and then transporting her to the operating room. Watch the video here.

Pregnant Woman Rushed To Hospital on tractor

The video also shows a hospital assistant pushing a hospital trolley bed behind the bed of the pregnant woman to be used if necessary.

The cases of women wrongly diagnosed or denied maternal healthcare resulting in harm or fatal incidents are on the rise.

Recently, a 29-year-old pregnant woman delivered a baby while travelling on an express train at the Arakkonam railway station in the Ranipet district of Tamil Nadu. The woman cop on duty at the platform, Parameshwari, helped her give birth before the doctor could arrive.

When Chandini, a pregnant woman, boarded the train at Tiruppatur, she suddenly began to experience labour pains. Her family immediately contacted the travel ticket examiner (TTE), who alerted the railway police at the Arakkonam railway station. The doctor was informed after railway employees brought the woman to the passenger waiting area. However, Chandini gave birth to a child with the assistance of a woman head constable Parameshwari before the doctor could get there.

In another instance, a pregnant woman passed away after she was allegedly refused treatment in a hospital in the Tumakuru district of Karnataka for not having an Aadhaar card or Taayi (maternity) card.

The doctor and hospital staff allegedly refused to admit the 30-year-old woman who was pregnant with twins.

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