In the drain: The ambulance after the accident at KM28 of the Simpang Pulai-Cameron Highlands road.
CAMERON HIGHLANDS: A teenage mum delivered a stillborn baby hours after the ambulance rushing her to hospital crashed into a drain.
It was ferrying 19-year-old Dalia Alia to Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun in Ipoh when the accident happened.
Her husband, Ahmad Nazri Zainul Kharib, 26, said it was raining heavily and the driver lost control of the ambulance.
It crashed into a drain along KM28 of the Simpang Pulai-Cameron Highlands road.
“My wife was knocked off the stretcher by the impact,” he said. “Some bystanders then sent us to the hospital in Ipoh.”
A doctor delivered the baby at about 6.25pm, but it was stillborn.
“We were shocked. The doctor told us the baby may have suffocated,” said Ahmad Nazri.
He said a post-mortem was done, but the cause of death could not be determined.
He has lodged a report at the Ipoh police district headquarters.
The couple live in Cameron Highlands.
Ahmad Nazri said he had taken his eight-month pregnant wife to the Sultanah Hajjah Kalsom Hospital in Tanah Rata at about 12pm on Sept 1 after she went into labour.
“After waiting there for a few hours, the doctor claimed Dalia needed to be transferred to the hospital in Ipoh and she was put into the ambulance at about 4.30pm,” he said.
It was the couple’s second child.
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