Kochi: A pregnant tribal woman, who walked miles from her remote village, took a jeep ride and crossed a river by boat in bad weather along with her husband, to reach a hospital only to be turned away, was finally forced to give birth inside a moving autorickshaw.

On reaching the Kothamangalam hospital in Ernakulam district last night after a long journey from their village at Thalavachappara, the couple was turned away saying there was no gynecologist.