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Podcast: India News - English
Episode: Video: no road, Thane woman carried in dholi; delivers baby on road
Description: A tribal woman who was carried in a 'dholi' (makeshift stretcher) due to the lack of proper roads after she went into labour gave birth in transit in Shahapur taluka of Thane district of Maharashtra on Sunday. A video of the woman being carried in the dholi has gone viral on social media. The woman from Patikacha Pada hamlet was being carried in the dholi in the late morning hours by her family members and some villagers. At around noon, she delivered a girl, a villager and an ASHA worker said. The woman and the baby were later taken to...