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Staff Correspondent

Published:
2023-01-13 06:15:53 BdST

Woman gives birth at Agargaon metro rail station


A woman gave birth to a baby boy at the Agargaon metro rail station in Dhaka on Thursday.

Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Deputy Project Manager of the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), confirmed the news.

“Sonia Rani Roy along with her husband Sukanta Saha was travelling to Agargaon from Uttara by metro rail started feeling labour pains. As the train reached Agargaon, she was taken to station first aid centre. Later, she gave birth to a baby at around 9:30am. Members of Scouts and DMTCL officials took care of the woman,” Mahfuzur Rahman said.

Later, the mother and the son were sent to a nearby hospital by an Italian-Thai Development Company’s ambulance, he added.

He also mentioned that mother and the baby did not have any physical complications.

Sukanta Saha, husband of the wife, said “My wife was under routine medical checkup throughout the pregnancy. Accordingly, I along with my wife left home for a doctor today (Thursday). But she started to experience labour pain in between the journey. After reaching Agargaon, she was taken to First Aid Centre. And we were blessed with a cute baby boy.”

The country’s first ever metro-rail service was inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on December 28 last year.

The following day, the city service went into commercial run attracting huge passengers.

Since then, people from across the country are making movement by the metro-train for necessary purposes and out of curiosity.

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