Covid recovered mother, 8-day-old baby discharged

Amravati: A 20-year-old Covid patient and her eight-day-old baby were discharged from the Covid hospital on Monday. A resident of Siddharth Nagar, the woman was admitted to the Covid ward on June 14 after testing positive, and had given birth to a baby girl the next day there.
The 20-year-old was among 13 who were discharged from Covid hospital. These 13 took the city’s tally of recovered patients to 300.
The woman was refused admission by private maternity homes when she was pregnant, as she had tested positive. Following this, she went to the Covid ward, where a special maternity cell was opened. Doctors and nurses at Covid hospital ensured safe delivery of the baby on June 15, with the help of medical staff from district women's hospital.
Guardian minister and minister for women and child development Yashomati Thakur wished the mother and baby as they stepped out of the hospital. Civil surgeons Dr Shyam Sunder Nikam and Dr Ravi Bhushan, gynaecologist Dr Sushma Shendre, anaesthetist Dr Anup Bondre and child specialist Dr Swapnil Patil were present too.
"She was the first pregnant Covid-19 positive patient admitted to the ward; and this necessitated the need to open a delivery cell in the hospital to tackle such cases in the future," Thakur told TOI.
Another Covid positive woman from village Rohankheda in Morshi tehsil had delivered a baby at Covid hospital on June 19. The mother and infant are safe and sound, hospital sources said.