Close X
Thursday, December 19, 2024
ADVT 
International

Indian-Origin Doctor Sij Hemal Delivers Baby On Paris To New York Flight

IANS, 31 Jan, 2018 12:07 PM
  • Indian-Origin Doctor Sij Hemal Delivers Baby On Paris To New York Flight
An off-duty Indian-origin doctor had an "oh boy" story when he helped deliver a healthy baby boy while on a trans-Atlantic flight from Paris to New York at 35,000 feet, according to media reports.
 
 
When a 41-year-old went into labour a week early, Air France flight attendants asked if there were any doctors on board. Dr Sij Hemal, a 27-year-old second-year urology resident at Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, immediately came forward, Cleveland 19 News reported.
 
 
Dr Hemal started in New Delhi, stopped in Paris and was heading to New York, where he would catch a connecting flight to Cleveland.
 
 
Dr Hemal was hoping to drink a glass of champagne and take a nap on a plane from Paris to New York on December 17, but instead helped deliver a healthy baby boy named Jake during the flight, the report said.
 
 
Together with Dr Stefanie Ortolan, a pediatrician from France, the two managed to deliver baby Jake after just 30 minutes of pushing, Dr Hemal said. He did not know that she was pregnant. He said the mom's bump was covered with a blanket.
 
 
"As a urologist, I was excited. I thought it was kidney stones, but later found out that she was 39 weeks pregnant," he said.
 

AN OFF-DUTY INDIAN-ORGIN DOCTOR DR. SIJ HEMAL HELPED DELIVER BABY ON BOARD PARIS-NEW YORK FLIGHT : An off-duty...

Posted by Ajay Nandy on Wednesday, 31 January 2018
 
Dr Hemal said there was no time to land the plane and the best decision was to deliver the baby on-board. Dr Hemal used a shoestring to tie and cut the umbilical cord for baby Jake.
 
 
"This has been a team effort and certainly a flight I will never forget," he said. Although Dr Hemal's practice area is urology, he delivered seven babies during medical school - although never on the floor of a jetliner.
 
 
"We're trained to stay calm and think clearly in emergency situations," he adds. "I just tried to think ahead to what might go wrong, and come up with a creative solution."
 
 
After Jake arrived, Dr Hemal said he FaceTimed his parents.
 
 
"Look I'm flying first class," he told his parents. "I wanted to surprise them and tell them I was flying first class. I'd never flown first class before. And ... umm ... by the way I also just delivered a baby! It was one of those moments I'll never forget," he said.
 
 
For his efforts, Air France delivered a travel voucher and a bottle of champagne to Dr Hemal.

MORE International ARTICLES

Mother To Accompany Jadhav's Wife: India’s Condition To Pak Offer

Mother To Accompany Jadhav's Wife: India’s Condition To Pak Offer
You are aware that there was a longstanding request from the mother of Kulbhushan Jadhav to visit Pakistan and meet her son

Mother To Accompany Jadhav's Wife: India’s Condition To Pak Offer

Pakistan Court Orders Release Of Hafiz Saeed

A Pakistan court on Wednesday ordered the release of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, blamed for the horrific 2008 Mumbai terror attack, from house arrest that began in January this year.  

Pakistan Court Orders Release Of Hafiz Saeed

Meet Ajit Pai, The Indian-Origin FCC Chief At Centre Of 'Net Neutrality' Debate In US

Meet Ajit Pai, The Indian-Origin FCC Chief At Centre Of 'Net Neutrality' Debate In US
Ajit Pai said the FCC will vote on December 14 to rescind the so-called net neutrality rules championed by Democratic former President Barack Obama.

Meet Ajit Pai, The Indian-Origin FCC Chief At Centre Of 'Net Neutrality' Debate In US

Great To Be An Indian In The US Right Now: YouTube Star Vidya Vox

Great To Be An Indian In The US Right Now: YouTube Star Vidya Vox
US-based YouTube star Vidya Vox says that, while growing up, she tried to shun her Indian heritage as she was often bullied in school. But she is now "100 per cent" proud of her roots and feels it is great to be an Indian in the US right now.

Great To Be An Indian In The US Right Now: YouTube Star Vidya Vox

2 Indian-Origin Men Killed In UK, Plane Collided With Chopper

2 Indian-Origin Men Killed In UK, Plane Collided With Chopper
Savaan Mundae, aeronautics student from Buckinghamshire New University who was training to be a commercial pilot, died with his instructor Jaspal Bahra when their plane collided with a chopper. Both aircraft disintegrated on impact and plummeted to the ground.

2 Indian-Origin Men Killed In UK, Plane Collided With Chopper

Indian-Origin Man Arrested After 1-Month-Old Child Found Dead In Car

Indian-Origin Man Arrested After 1-Month-Old Child Found Dead In Car
  Divya Patel of Rocky Hill in Connecticut was arrested after police discovered his one-month-old child dead in the backseat of his car on Sunday.

Indian-Origin Man Arrested After 1-Month-Old Child Found Dead In Car