Saudi woman gives birth at Mumbai airport washroom

A 20-year-old Saudi woman gave birth to a baby in the washroom at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) in Mumbai, India on Tuesday afternoon. Passenger Hayas Alhagbani along with three women and one male family members arrived from Hyderabad enroute to Riyadh on Air India flight AI921 at 12.45 pm. The flight was delayed and […]

A 20-year-old Saudi woman gave birth to a baby in the washroom at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) in Mumbai, India on Tuesday afternoon.
Passenger Hayas Alhagbani along with three women and one male family members arrived from Hyderabad enroute to Riyadh on Air India flight AI921 at 12.45 pm. The flight was delayed and the takeoff was postponed to 5.45pm, when Alhagbani went into labour, said officials from Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL).
Housekeeping staff member Sweta Satpal immediately alerted doctors who rushed to the washroom and helped the passenger to move away so that the baby could be delivered safely. A baby boy was delivered at 1.56pm.
The passenger was offloaded for medical reasons and was taken in an ambulance to Seven Hills hospital in Andheri around 2.41pm.
“Both the mother and the baby are fine,” said an official from MIAL.