Born to Fall and Live
Rinky jumped off a moving train to save her kid
Have you heard about a kid who took birth in the railway toilet and slipped through the filthy discharge chute onto the tracks but still survived. Not only this her mother just flung herself from the speeding train in complete darkness to rescuer her baby. His husband, totally unaware of the incident only knew about it when some passengers pulled the chain and cried to raise an alarm. When a hundred and so passengers started search on the track, in the dark and at about 10 pm they found Rinky Devi Roy sitting beside the tracks clutching her newborn with some minor injuries. Really a miracle!You want to know the name of her husband – his name was Bhola (34), and he was really a Bhola i.e. innocent. What is the fun of knowing that it happened in S2 compartment of Up Tata Chhapra Ex from Tatanagar, and her wife’s name is Rinky, her two-year-old daughter accompanying them bears the name Muskan, i.e. smile. They belong to Odisha’s Sundergarh. The poor man was taking her 9-month pregnant wife to a hospital by this train and all this happened in between.. Now the twosome are in a Deba Mahato hospital in Purulia undergoing treatment, little aware that the baby was entitled to a lifelong railway pass.
Moreover this is the second time in one and a half years that such a miracle has taken place. On Feb 28, 2008, a new born girl survived a fall from the train toilet in Gujarat. But these are not solitary examples of lack of hospital facilities. In a world where half a million die in pregnancies and child birth and 3.7 million new-born die within the first 28 days, such survivals are miracles. Moreover the plight of India is the most gruesome. Human Rights Watch has complete data regarding 2005 and it quotes that nearly 1,17,000 deaths occurred of pregnancy related causes and this number is the highest in the World. Moreover 70 per cent of deaths are preventable.
