MANILA, Philippines - A 23-year-old woman gave birth in a train on the Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line 2 route in Manila yesterday morning.
The woman, accompanied by her parents, were reportedly in a private car coming from Antipolo City and on their way to the Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila when the woman started going into labor.
The family, thinking the train would get them to the hospital faster, decided to take the LRT Line 2 instead, according to LRT Authority spokesman Hernando Cabrera.
The woman gave birth to a girl just before 9 a.m. with the help of a fellow passenger, a nurse who identified herself as “Anna,†Cabrera said.
At the Recto Avenue station, LRTA physician Edgardo Aguas cut the umbilical cord and ministered to the needs of the woman and her newborn, he said.
Cabrera said that the woman and her parents asked that their names not be given out. The nurse who helped in the delivery was in a hurry and LRTA personnel were only able to get her first name when they tried to interview her at the Recto Avenue station, he added.
The childbirth was the first to happen at the LRT Line 2 this year, compared to three childbirths in trains or stations of the LRT Line 1, which has two government hospitals along its route.