Overview

• The 36-year-old from Turkheda’s Khaidi Faliya was carried about 5 km in a cloth stretcher to reach an ambulance, then referred from Kawant PHC to Chhota Udepur and finally to Vadodara’s SSG Hospital, where records show she was brought dead at 2:22 am.
• The newborn survived, according to local accounts, while the mother leaves behind four daughters in what was her fifth pregnancy.
• Chhota Udepur officials say tenders for a nine-kilometre road were issued and construction will start in October after the monsoon, following last year’s High Court-driven approval that has yet to translate into access.
• The same day in Telangana’s Bhadradri Kothagudem district, a woman carried in a doli through a forest stretch delivered on the roadside before an ambulance transported her and the baby to Satyanarayanapuram Government Hospital.
• Repeated incidents across Gujarat’s tribal hamlets since October 2024 highlight how roadless terrain, monsoon overgrowth and limited primary obstetric capacity force long carries to reach ambulances and drive dangerous delays in care.