Courageous: Doctors deliver Baby during Earthquake in J&K

                    Courageous: Doctors deliver Baby during Earthquake in J&K

  Aman Zutshi 

Doctors at Sub District Hospital (SDH) Bijbehara in  Kashmir’s Anantnag district kept their nerve to deliver a baby through lower-segment cesarean section while an earthquake rocked the whole J-K yesterday.

As per report, the matter came to light when CMO Anantnag took to tweeter and said, “Emergency LSCS (lower-segment cesarean section) was going on at SDH (Sub District Hospital) Bijbehara, Anantnag, during which strong tremors of earthquake were felt”.

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Talking to the media, A senior doctor who conducted operation, said, “We thank God who encouraged us to be with patient”.

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“On the intervening night of March 21 and 22 we received a call from SDH Bijbehara for three emergency procedures and with God’s grace we have completed two successfully and one has remained”, he explained.

“The patient we attended had high risk profile and her baby was also in distress, during the operation we felt a jolt and all my team might have felt it”, he added.

“During the operation when earthquake hit us I told my team to carry on the operation to save the patient and we successfully saved mother and baby”, he said.

“Obviously everybody will run for their safety during earthquake but we stood with the patient and kept her motivated, the duo is okay and we’re also with Almighty blessings”, he remarked.

“We had only thing in mind that we have to protect our patient and must not leave her alone whatever happens and finally in the end we emerged victorious”, a woman doctor said.

“We only felt minor jolts in beginning but with time as tremors increased it raced our heart, but our patient is our first priority & we stick to our job”, she added.

“Our gift is when we saved mother-baby duo and when her family thanked us”, she said.

“We’re humans and it is natural that we panicked cause recently a big earthquake rocked Turkey  and we’re here to look after patients”, another female doctor said.

“Our team didn’t feel okay to abandon patient and we’re so glad that we saved mother and her infant. We had dinner at 12:30am in night cause we succeeded in saving lives”, she added smiling.

An earthquake of 6.6-magnitude struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan, shaking the J&K so violently that residents in many areas rushed out of their homes in search of safety.