An incident occurred outside the premises of municipal maternity home at Mahim, where Rekha 27 yrs old, an eight month pregnant woman has delivered a baby on footpath. She had come to the hospital with her husband for the checkup but hospital authorities turn her away.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has mentioned that they will look into the matter and will set up an internal inquiry against maternity home.

Additional Municipal Commissioner Manish Mhasikar said that by tomorrow preliminary report would be submitted in this matter.

After the incident police arrived at the zero ground to examine the events, it is then when hospital authorities have taken Rekha and her child inside the hospital premises.

Her husband said that everybody was only watching the drama until she delivers the baby. After the delivery the baby was sent to Sion hospital for neo natal care whereas Rekha was admitted in the Mahim Maternity home for blood transfusion as she had lost lots of blood.

Although the, hospital authorities have not done any blood transfusion and on Tuesday she was also shifted, to Sion hospital.

Rekha said that it was an embarrassing moment for her because there were so many men around her during the delivery and she will not able to forget those painful moments throughout her life. Nurses told Rekha that child needs mother's milk but she was not in the position to feed the child because she had become very weak after this incidence.

Her husband is working as a conservancy worker with the ward office in Dadar, told that Rekha was suffering from premature labour pains when they both went to the hospital for check up, after the checkup, hospital officials have declared that she was weak and refuse to admit her.