<p>A 32-year-old woman, hailing from Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, gave birth to a baby girl while being shifted to a hospital here in a police van on Sunday, police said.</p>.<p>Sonia Devi, who presently lives in Channi Himmat locality here, experienced labour pain around 2 am Sunday when her husband Raj Kumar, a migrant labourer, made a distress call to Police Control Room (PCR), seeking help, a police official said.</p>.<p><strong>Listen | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/state/pandemic-podcast-food-shortage-looms-large-on-karnataka-824374.html" target="_blank">Pandemic Podcast: Food shortage looms large on Karnataka</a></strong></p>.<p>He said the PCR immediately passed on the information to the police station concerned and a van was rushed to take Devi to SMGS hospital.</p>.<p>However, the woman gave birth to a female baby en route to the hospital, the official said, adding the woman was taken to her home after being given first aid.</p>.<p>Both the mother and child are in good health, the official said. </p>
<p>A 32-year-old woman, hailing from Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, gave birth to a baby girl while being shifted to a hospital here in a police van on Sunday, police said.</p>.<p>Sonia Devi, who presently lives in Channi Himmat locality here, experienced labour pain around 2 am Sunday when her husband Raj Kumar, a migrant labourer, made a distress call to Police Control Room (PCR), seeking help, a police official said.</p>.<p><strong>Listen | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/state/pandemic-podcast-food-shortage-looms-large-on-karnataka-824374.html" target="_blank">Pandemic Podcast: Food shortage looms large on Karnataka</a></strong></p>.<p>He said the PCR immediately passed on the information to the police station concerned and a van was rushed to take Devi to SMGS hospital.</p>.<p>However, the woman gave birth to a female baby en route to the hospital, the official said, adding the woman was taken to her home after being given first aid.</p>.<p>Both the mother and child are in good health, the official said. </p>