Passenger deaths are not a rare occurrence at airports around the world, but on Tuesday, a Saudi national went into labour at the Mumbai airport and delivered a healthy baby boy inside the washroom.
The young mother, Alhagbani Haya Saud (20), had flown in from Hyderabad, accompanied by her mother and two siblings. They were in transit and were to board an Air India flight 921 to Riyadh. They were waiting near boarding gate no 70 of T2 when Saud went into labour. "The woman and her mother went to the washroom near the said boarding gate," said a Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd official. "At the washroom, her labour pains intensified. A female housekeeping staff present inside the washroom informed the terminal manager, who in turn called MIAL's doctors on duty," the official added.
A male and a female doctor rushed to the washroom to find the woman squatting over a commode and in advanced stage of labour. "They brought the woman out and completed the delivery in a makeshift area in the washroom itself," said an airport official. "The baby was delivered at 1.58pm, barely 15 minutes after the doctors reached the scene," the official added. "Had the doctors not reached the spot in time, the baby might have fallen into the commode," he added. The mother, her relatives and the baby, wrapped in sterile cloth, were taken to a private hospital in an ambulance.
It was the first time that the integrated terminal T2, which was inaugurated in February last year, handled a delivery.
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