ByCoincidence of having doctor in same train helped mother safely deliver baby despite no medical paraphernalia.Thirty-year-old Saraswati Singh had been experiencing mild pain in her stomach since the morning. Expecting the worst, the nine-month pregnant Saraswati urged her husband, construction worker Vashishth to take her to JJ Hospital, where she was already undergoing treatment.But little did Saraswati realise, when she boarded a CST-bound local from Diva, that the train ride would be etched in her memory forever as a remarkable one where she would give birth to her son in a cargo compartment of the train.Saraswati was experiencing closelyplaced contractions by the time the train reached Mulund. Her cries of pain and her husband’s helpless request for assistance finally made co-passengers pull the emergency chain and bring the train to a halt at Bhandup at around 10 am.By then, Saraswati was yelling in pain, which finally made a few women get off the train and enquire for a doctor in all the compartments.According to witnesses, a railway ambulance was already on its way. But Saraswati’s condition could not wait.As luck would have it, the nearest ladies compartment of the train had a doctor among the passengers, who was more than willing to offer her assistance.Dr Karuna Ahire, who runs a clinic in Ambernath and worked at a Vikhroli medical firm, rushed to the train’s luggage compartment to deliver the baby. After she helped Saraswati safely deliver the baby, sans medical paraphernalia, the mother and the new born were transferred to the nearby Savitribai Hospital for medical attention.Both the mother and the baby were stable by then.“I rushed out of the ladies compartment to reach Saraswati when I heard someone crying for a doctor’s help,” Dr Ahire said recounting the incident.However, the tale of the initial indifference narrated by witnesses, proved to be the only cloud in the otherwise clear horizon.“At first, nobody wanted to help. They were just silent bystanders, watching things unfold. The woman was just yelping in pain but fellow passengers, including a few women, remained silent. Finally when a few passengers urged someone to go ask for help, two of them stepped off the train and found the doctor,” a witness reported.“After getting information, an RPF constable rushed to the spot and helped the couple reach Savitribai Hospital,” Sachin Bhalode, senior divisional security commissioner of Central Railway, Mumbai division, said.Narendra Patil , Chief Public relation officer of Central Railway said, “As soon as we received news, we sent a female home guard and a male constable to the spot.”Vashishth was generous with his gratefulness to Dr Ahire. “We are extremely lucky and thankful to have had Dr Ahire in out train. I don’t know what we would have done without her.”“I was just doing my job and saving a human being, helping her give birth to another,” a modest Dr Ahire replied.