On Wednesday morning, a pregnant woman named Ruby Kumari fell down the stairs on platform number three at Gomoh railway station in Jharkhand. This resulted in her giving birth right there. She lay in pain at the station for about an hour and a half, during which time her newborn baby...
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died. After an hour and a half, a railway doctor, Dr. Asim Kumar, arrived with his staff. A nurse cut the umbilical cord of the dead newborn. The Gomoh RPF team also arrived at the scene. The woman was covered in blood and in distress. Rajendra Singh, a local leader, arrived and helped carry the woman out of the station on a stretcher. She was then taken to the Topchanchi CHC (Community Health Center) by private vehicle. Ruby Kumari, 19, was traveling with her husband Amar Thakur from Surat to her village, Khedabeda in Chaita Panchayat. She got off the Malda Express at Chandrapura station and then took the Barkakana passenger train, arriving in Gomoh at 7 am. While climbing the bridge on the platform, she had the accident. A 108 ambulance arrived two hours after the incident, after Ruby Kumari had already been taken to the CHC. This was due to the lack of ambulances in Gomoh and Topchanchi. The railway also did not provide an ambulance. When local people were trying to carry Ruby Kumari on a stretcher, RPF personnel stopped them, took pictures, and then allowed them to proceed.