Residents of Wada taluka in Palghar district had to carry a seven-month pregnant tribal woman in a makeshift stretcher for 5 km through the hilly terrain on Wednesday. Aarti Vishal Tabale, 21, was in pain and had to be rushed to a hospital, and there is no road connecting her village to the main road.

The incident happened in Bamanshet Pada of Ambarbhui village in Wada, adjacent to India’s financial capital, after Aarti developed labour pains.