Covid-19 patient dies 3 days after delivering healthy baby

Nagpur: Battling severe pregnancy related complications and

Covid infection

, a 20-year-old woman passed away late Tuesday night, three days after giving birth to a healthy baby boy at Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hosptial (IGGMCH). “This is first case in city when a Covid positive mother died after the delivery,” deputy medical superintendent (corona patient care)

Dr Sagar Pandey

told TOI.

“Saving the

unborn baby

was important to us. The patient’s condition was serious when she was admitted with full labour pains. She also had pregnancy hypertension, which causes further complications. The delivery was performed by putting her on ventilator,” he said.

Dr Pandey said her test results came after the caesearan confirming she had Covid. “She remained on ventilator for one and half days. The baby was healthy and was kept in other ward before being handed over to the relatives. The newborn’s test is not advisable at the moment but if he develops symptoms, he can be tested,” Pandey said.

Resident doctors Dr Lata Asudani and Dr Deepti Kadam were at the frontline in treating the woman. The C-section was done under supervision of head of obstrectics and gynaecology department and medical superintendent Dr Ravi Chavhan. Dr Bitey, incharge of medicine department, provided support.

So far, several corona positive expecting moms have delivered babies and have been discharged after 14-day isolation.

This young woman was driven in an ambulance from Multai, 127km from here in

Madhya Pradesh

, to IGGMCH on Sunday night. Same night she delivered through C-section while her swab was collected later.

She tested positive on Monday evening. She was a native of Kamptee where her body was laid to rest amid supervision of zilla parishad officials.

Her uncle, an office bearer of

Kamptee Municipal Council

, said they were told the mother and newborn were doing well. “On Monday, we were told suddenly her BP shot up and she would be shifted to Covid ward where she breathed her last,” he said.

Asked why was she brought to Nagpur, the uncle said they wanted his niece’s delivery done at private hospital which was not available at her husband’s town in Multai.

The newborn was taken back to Multai by his father on Wednesday. Relatives also alleged several private hospitals in Kamptee refused to admit the patient, who got married last year. “When she started from Multai, we approached a couple of private hospitals but they told us to directly take her to any of the government hospitals,” the uncle said.

Of late, Kamptee has emerged as a Covid hotspot with 514 cases and nine deaths. The woman’s death was added in Nagpur city’s tally of 10 on Wednesday.