Woman delivers baby on NDRF rescue boat in flood-hit Bihar
They said the woman was rescued from her home in Gobri village in East Champaran district when she suffered severe labor and later gave birth to the child at around 1:40 pm.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team was accompanied by an ASHA (recognized social health worker) activist who in Delhi said an NDRF spokesperson helped deliver.
The spokesman said that the rescue teams of the 9th battalion of NDRF were involved in the drowning incident in the vicinity when they were informed about the pregnant woman whose village was hit by the floodwaters of the Budhi Gandak River.
"The mother and the newborn have been shifted by ambulance to a public health facility in Banjariya village in Motihari district, and their condition is stated to be stable," he said.
The spokesman said that NDRF personnel are trained in the Medical First Responder course and all rescuers are taught how to deal with childbirth during an emergency.
"This is the 10th delivery (also the case of twins) on the boat of NDRF, while mothers are expected to be brought from flood-affected areas since 2013," the spokesperson said.
A total of 21 NDRF teams are deployed in a dozen districts of Bihar to carry out flood rescue and relief work.
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