10:00 PM
Saturday 02nd January 2021
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Books – Sayed Metwally
A pregnant college graduate who was battling Covid-19 has woken up from a 9-day coma to find that British health workers had delivered her baby.
Mahbara Naqvi, 22, was seven months pregnant when she was transferred to Bradford Royal Hospital, West Yorkshire, in October after suffering from breathing difficulties, according to the British Daily Mail.
She developed symptoms of the Corona virus, including coughing, headache, and loss of sense of taste and smell, before her condition rapidly deteriorated within the next few days.
Ms. Naqvi was placed in the intensive care ward on her first night in the hospital and was told by the Director of Critical Care, Debbie Horner, that her baby might have to be delivered by Caesarean section and kept in an incubator.
As her condition worsened, concerns were raised about the baby’s oxygen needs adding to the pressure on Mrs. Naqvi’s lungs, and doctors decided to perform a cesarean delivery.
However, the graduate’s blood oxygen levels decreased dramatically as she was taken to the operating room and the staff chose to perform the operation while she was placed under anesthesia.
While she was under anesthesia, her oxygen levels fell even lower, but the doctors managed to deliver her baby, Nour, before returning Ms. Naqvi to intensive care in an induced coma.
“I was on a ventilator for nine days, I think, I didn’t know I was born, I didn’t know anything,” said the mother, who had attended Bedfordshire.
The mother was discharged from the hospital on November 3 with her daughter Nour, who was born and weighs 1.5 kg, and the two spouses were reunited after Mrs. Naqvi woke up from her coma and was transferred to the Women and Newborn Unit.
The mother who recovered from the virus added: “I can touch her and see her – I did not believe that she was actually alive, and that she was fine.”
Ms. Naqvi still deals with hiking and sometimes has shortness of breath, but she is recovering well.
“I’m really happy that things worked out for them, in fact, because it was a really difficult situation, and it was stressful for everyone,” said Critical Care Manager Debbie Horner.
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