A 23-year-old woman gave birth in the underground passage leading to the Lisova metro station on May 12.
According to the Interior Ministry, police officers on duty nearby heard the woman screaming in the passage at about 8 p.m. When they came over, they saw that she was in labor. The police immediately called an ambulance and brought the woman a blanket, water and some hygiene products.
The ministry says that the woman couldn’t wait for the medics’ arrival and gave birth to a baby boy right on the floor of the underpass. Police officers stayed near the woman, monitoring her condition.
A woman gave birth in the underground passage leading to the Lisova metro station on May 12, 2021 in Kyiv. (kyivoperativ.info)
The ambulance took the woman and her newborn boy to a hospital in Brovary, a city in Kyiv Oblast located 25 kilometers east of Kyiv’s Lisova station, the final station on the “red” metro line.
This is not the first case of childbirth in or near the capital’s subway, according to Kyiv Metro’s Deputy Chief Natalka Makohon. In a Facebook post published on May 12, Makohon said that in 2014, a woman gave birth to a baby girl right at the Teatralna metro station in central Kyiv. Subway employees and the police assisted the birth.
Online commentators joked that the Kyiv subway should give the baby a lifelong metro pass.
The video, released by Kyiv Police, shows police officers helping the woman who gave birth on the floor of a subway underpass in Kyiv on May 12.
