Bhayandar: Four months after giving birth to a girl inside the general compartment of a local train, 26-year-old Surekha Tiwari along with her husband are now struggling to get a birth certificate for their baby girl -Aarti.
After going into labour in the wee hours of October 25, 2018 Surekha Tiwari was refused admissions in known health care facilities in Bhayandar and Kandivali. This left her husband with no other option but to board a local train with her and head towards a hospital in Mumbai Central.
“Since Aarti was born in transit, hospital authorities at Tembha and KEM have expressed their inability to issue her birth certificate. I don’t know what to do. I have already exhausted by savings and cannot afford to take leaves from work. ” says Sushil, a tribal who works as a domestic cook at a household in Bhayandar.
