Malkangiri: A pregnant woman on Tuesday delivered a baby while being carried in a sling to an ambulance that failed to reach Chapulpada village under Khairaput block in Malkangiri district in the absence of proper roads.
According to sources, the woman, wife of one Dhabulu Majhi, experienced labour pains on Tuesday morning following which her family members called an Asha worker, who made arrangements to shift the woman to hospital with the help of villagers.
Subsequently, the villagers carried her on a sling.
After she delivered the baby on the way, both the woman and the newborn were carried for 7 km before they reached the ambulance.
Sources added that the mother and child were taken to Khairaput hospital in the ambulance. Their condition is stated to be stable.
