Overview
- A 35-year-old woman, Savita Vishwakarma, went into labour on Wednesday evening and gave birth while villagers carried her on a cot across a swollen rain-fed river because vehicles could not reach the hamlet.
- Family members called the 108 ambulance but the vehicle could not enter the settlement after the river cut the only approach road, forcing villagers to improvise a foot crossing and then transport the mother and newborn by motorcycle to Amarwara Civil Hospital.
- Hospital staff reported both mother and baby are healthy and health officials said they are investigating why the ambulance did not reach the village in time.
- Residents say about 20 families in Lohri Mohalla are cut off every monsoon and that repeated requests to the Janpad Panchayat, the SDM and elected representatives for a bridge and an all‑weather road have gone unanswered.
- The episode highlights a wider problem in Madhya Pradesh where centralised ambulance dispatch from Bhopal and seasonal road breaches create last‑mile gaps in emergency care and increase reliance on risky community responses.