Covid-19 patient gives birth through C-section

Coimbatore: The ESI Hospital has successfully performed a complicated Caesarean section on a 36-year-old woman with a massive uterine fibroid measuring 25x27cm, after she was tested positive for Covid-19 and admitted to the facility.
Gynaecologists with the hospital said the fibroid was so large that it was pressing on the baby and obstructing its passage through the birth canal. “We had to be extra careful about not touching or puncturing the fibroid as that might lead to excessive bleeding, endangering the woman’s life.”
The woman from Tirupur was referred to the ESI Hospital from a private hospital she was consulting after she tested positive for Covid-19.
At the ESI Hospital, ultrasound scan of the womb detected the uterine fibroid, which surprisingly had not hindered the baby’s growth. The gynaecologists realized that the fibroid would obstruct the labour and natural delivery.
Pointing out that the woman was pregnant for the third time, they said she had a normal delivery on the earlier two occasions. The question, they said, was how to handle such a massive fibroid.
On September 19, the gynaecologists, performed the C-section and carefully removed the baby, a healthy girl weighing 2.75kg, which was almost pushed to a corner by the cyst. They, however, decided to leave the fibroid inside the fibroid.
Hospital dean Dr Nirmala said, “Removing the fibroid would have caused massive bleeding. They often form in women because of increased blood flow. We also felt that the fibroid will reduce in size on its own post-pregnancy and as the woman ages when blood flow to it will reduce.”