Srinagar,January 16 (Scoop News) – Four pregnant ladies Rahila, Saleema, Hafiza and Saleema wouldn’t had made it to deliver their babies through safe hands of Gynecologists, if police had not come to their help at a critical time.
According to official sources that a pregnant lady Mst Rahila wife of Arshid Khatana resident of Gujjar Basti Batakote, Pahalgam was evacuated by Anantnag police to SDH, Anantnag in a police vehicle that was kept standby for medical exigencies. The family was unable to shift her to the hospital because of heavy snowfall in the area.
In another similar incident Khrew police shifted a pregnant lady Hafiza Begum wife of Showkat Ahmad Najar resident of Bathen, Khrew who was stuck in the village due to road blocks caused by heavy snowfall. The lady was shifted to the SDH, Pampore in a police vehicle.
Kupwara police came to the rescue of two pregnant Saleema wife of Mohammad Shafi Shah resident of Tekipora and Saleema wife of Shamsudin resident of Dorusa who had gone in their labors but their families were unable to take them to the hospital. Sogam police press their vehicles in service and evacuated both the ladies to Sogam Hospital.
It was a timely action of police that saved the four ladies and their babies as any delay in their shifting could have taken proved fatal for them.