New Delhi: The wife of AIIMS doctor, who tested positive for coronavirus, gives birth to a healthy baby boy at AIIMS on Friday night. Both husband and wife were tested positive, but there is no positive result found in their baby boy.
The resident doctor of the physiology department at AIIMS was tested positive for the Coronavirus. The wife was also found positive for coronavirus after a few hours of her husband’s diagnostic test.
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Via: thestatesman.com
Dr. DK Sharma said,
“The mother delivered a healthy baby through a cesarean delivery on Friday night. Our doctors followed proper protocol during her delivery. They wore PPE (Personal Protection Equipment), and all pieces of equipment were would be disinfected. The team of doctors headed by Dr Neerja Batla conducted the delivery of a baby.”
“As soon as we got to know that the pregnant wife of a resident doctor was Covid-19 positive, we immediately shifted her to the isolation ward. A arranged a temporary operation theater for this delivery as per guidelines of clinical management of Covid-19.”
So, this news is a big relief for pregnant women who were in a panic about their deliveries and unborn babies.