Lady Fani landed in Odisha: Officials said

Guwahati May 3 ,2019:

At the onset of the extremely severe cyclonic Fani, a newly born baby in an Odisha railway hospital was named after the cyclonic storm ‘Fani’.

The hospital officials in a flash state, she could only be Lady Fani for them.

The baby was born at 11.03 am in the railway hospital in Mancheswar, barely five km from the Odisha capital Bhubaneswar, officials said.

The railway hospitals further said, as Cyclone Fani raged outside, the doctors maintained their calm and delivered her safely.

The child is born to a 32-year-old railway employee working as a helper at the Coach Repair Workshop, Mancheswar, and the mother are doing fine, said officials of the Bhubaneswar-headquartered East Coast Railways (ECoR).

"Baby made landfall at 11.03. We are calling her Lady Fani as she was born when the hospital was hit. This was the mother's first baby and both of them are doing fine. The hospital suffered some damage," ECoR spokesperson J P Mishra told the media.