Woman delivered of baby boy inside BRT bus

Passengers on a Bus Rapid Transit going to the CMS area of Lagos on Wednesday were forced to become emergency midwives and labour attendants when a pregnant woman was delivered of a bouncing baby boy inside the bus.

The woman, identified simply as Afolaranmi, who joined the BRT bus at the Ketu Bus stop, is a trader and lives in the Mowe area of Ogun State was going to a private hospital in CMS for a medical checkup, when she started her labour, some medical workers in the bus organised other passengers to help in delivering the baby. This happened by 12pm, around the Constain bus stop.

After the delivery, the mother and the new baby were taken to a private hospital.

A passenger on the bus said :

“It was a very interesting experience.To my novice eye, the woman and the baby were both fine as of the time I left the bus.”