Mobile phone-assisted birth on tour bus

[Thaivisa News]

NakhonPhanom: – A Lao woman passenger, assisted by another bus passenger receiving instruction from mobile-phone, has given birth to a baby boy on the bus en route through the remote PhuPhan mountain range.

Following the successful child birth delivery, the Lao woman, identified as SerthMalakun, 30, was admitted at PhraAjarn Ban Hospital in PhuPhan district.

Driver PrasitTongthong said his VIP Bus 99 left Bangkok’s Mor Chit Station at 8.30 pm on Sunday as scheduled. The NakhonPhanom-bound bus had five male and two female passengers.

Shortly after midnight, the bus reached the remote mountain range straddling between Kalasin and NakhonPhanom.

Serth suddenly cried for help alerting Prasit about her contraction and imminent child birth.

Prasit said he parked the bus by the roadside and that confusion ensued as no one had had experienced giving birth and a nearest hospital was almost an hour away by driving.

Calm restored after woman passenger Kriratiya stepped forward to identify herself as a NakhonPhanom hospital worker.

Kriratiya used her mobile phone to call her nurse friend who in turn gave instruction on how to assist in natural child birth delivery.

Prasit and male passengers helped to make necessary preparations, turning the bus into the makeshift delivery room. They then stepped off the bus to wait on the roadside.

Around 5.30 am, the delivery was pronounced a success. Prasit drove to the district hospital where the mother and her newborn baby, weighed 3,300 grams, were found in good health.

Serth works in NakhonNayok. She was travelling back to her hometown Kammuan, Laos to give birth.

[DoctorG]

nice story. welcome to the bub.