KOLKATA: A 21-year-old Covid positive woman safely delivered a boy at Howrah’s Sanjiban Hospital on Tuesday via C-section. Both the mother and child are doing well. The swab samples of the newborn have been sent for tests.
Since her husband works as a driver at a superspecialty hospital in Howrah, he had been living in the hospital since the lockdown to ferry healthcare workers to and from the hospital. So when his wife’s delivery date approached he consulted doctors in his hospital. The hospital made arrangements at its another unit in Mukundapur.
“Since I am associated with the healthcare industry, I knew that many pregnant women are testing positive. So I was worried as to what will happen to my wife,” he told TOI.
At the Mukundapur hospital, her swab samples were sent for testing while doctors admitted her in the isolation facility. When the Covid positive report came on Tuesday, the hospital shifted the patient to the Covid hospital in Uluberia as the Mukundapur facility does not have isolation OT for delivery.
Federation of Obstetrical & Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) vice president gynaecologist Basab Mukherjee earlier had told TOI the need for each private hospital to have an isolation OT or isolation labour room so that a pregnant woman does not undergo the ordeal of being shifted to a Covid hospital for childbirth.
“We had to conduct the C-section on an emergency basis,” said a source at Sanjiban Hospital.
Sanjiban being one of the foremost hospitals, the state had requisitioned it as a Covid hospital. It has a team to deal with pregnancy. So, once the patient arrived at the hospital around 6pm on Tuesday, the team of doctors — Avijit Mukherjee, gynaecologist, Urmila Pillai Ray, neonatologist and Asim Halder, anaesthesiologist, led by medical director Dalia Mitra — attended to her. She was rushed to the emergency OT where the team conducted the C-section at 7.30pm. “The baby has been kept in the same room, at a distance of six feet. The mom is being encouraged to breast-feed with safety precaution and hygiene,” said a source.
Since her husband works as a driver at a superspecialty hospital in Howrah, he had been living in the hospital since the lockdown to ferry healthcare workers to and from the hospital. So when his wife’s delivery date approached he consulted doctors in his hospital. The hospital made arrangements at its another unit in Mukundapur.
“Since I am associated with the healthcare industry, I knew that many pregnant women are testing positive. So I was worried as to what will happen to my wife,” he told TOI.
At the Mukundapur hospital, her swab samples were sent for testing while doctors admitted her in the isolation facility. When the Covid positive report came on Tuesday, the hospital shifted the patient to the Covid hospital in Uluberia as the Mukundapur facility does not have isolation OT for delivery.
Federation of Obstetrical & Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) vice president gynaecologist Basab Mukherjee earlier had told TOI the need for each private hospital to have an isolation OT or isolation labour room so that a pregnant woman does not undergo the ordeal of being shifted to a Covid hospital for childbirth.
“We had to conduct the C-section on an emergency basis,” said a source at Sanjiban Hospital.
Sanjiban being one of the foremost hospitals, the state had requisitioned it as a Covid hospital. It has a team to deal with pregnancy. So, once the patient arrived at the hospital around 6pm on Tuesday, the team of doctors — Avijit Mukherjee, gynaecologist, Urmila Pillai Ray, neonatologist and Asim Halder, anaesthesiologist, led by medical director Dalia Mitra — attended to her. She was rushed to the emergency OT where the team conducted the C-section at 7.30pm. “The baby has been kept in the same room, at a distance of six feet. The mom is being encouraged to breast-feed with safety precaution and hygiene,” said a source.
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