2 corona +ve women give birth to healthy babies

TNN | May 5, 2020, 04:09 IST

Kanpur:Two coronavirus positive women have given birth to a baby girl and a baby boy at the Duffrin hospital of the city on Sunday.
Chief Medical superintendent Duffrin hospital Dr VV Singh told that TOI the baby girl and the baby boy both are healthy with good weight and doing well as of now.
Dr Ruchi Jain and Dr Kajli Gupta, who led the team which carried out the caesarian deliveries, said the babies were born on Sunday.
According to sources, with these two, coronavirus infected women have given birth to total four babies. Earlier, a woman had given birth to a baby at Duffrin hospital on April 29, was tested positive for Covid-19 on May 3. Prior to that a corona positive woman on April 30 had given birth to a baby boy at Upper India Sugar Exchange hospital of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial medical college.
The doctors said, “the mothers of the new born are fine and though they have tested positive for COVID-19. Soon after deliveries, they and their infants were shifted to a separate isolation ward.”
The hospital has sent the doctor, nurses and other health workers who came in contact with them to isolation and sanitized the entire building including the operation theatre.