Pregnant woman traced and hospitalised, delivers healthy baby boy

Pregnant woman missing for days located by officials, hospitalised, and gives birth to healthy baby boy.

A pregnant woman who failed to get admitted to the hospital for delivery and was missing for several days was located by a team of officials and hospitalised. She later gave birth to a boy on Sunday.

Jyothi, 20, from Solaganai tribal village in the Bargur hills, was advised by doctors at the Government Primary Health Centre in Bargur to get admitted to the hospital on March 3, as her delivery date was approaching. However, she did not turn up, and health workers repeatedly advised her to go to the hospital. She insisted that she would come only when she experienced labour pain. Despite multiple efforts, the health team was unable to locate her for four days.

On Sunday, the officials were informed that she was at her mother’s house in Devarmalai. A team led by Anthiyur Block Medical Officer Sakthi Krishnan, comprising nurses, forest department staff, and police personnel, visited her and counselled her on the risks of home delivery. She was then taken to the Government Hospital in Anthiyur in a 108 ambulance.

Later that night, she gave birth to a baby boy. Doctors confirmed that both the mother and the baby are in good health.