A thirties, already the mother of a child, was hospitalized on May 15, 2020 due to a high fever. Three days later, she was plunged into an artificial coma. Despite this, Diana Angola, a 36-year-old Colombian woman infected with the coronavirus, was able to give birth to her son Jefferson, born at 27 and a half weeks of pregnancy, without the coronavirus. A “miracle” according to doctors.
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Because of her pregnancy, she had to be kept seated at a 45-degree angle, while people with pneumonia are normally lying on their stomachs to facilitate their breathing. Doctors then performed a caesarean in early June to give birth to the child prematurely, given the state of the young woman’s lungs weakened by the virus. “The situation generated a lot of stress, because we knew that there were few cases of survival reported in a context as serious as that of our patient”, tell paula Velasquez, specialist in internal medicine at the clinic Versalles, in the city of Cali, in the south-east of Colombia.
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But, “a human being can survive from 24 weeks on with a good weight, but with a lot of technology and an effect on neurological development and the lungs,” emphasizes Dr. Velasquez. “He was born with great difficulty breathing, we had to resuscitate him, we had to go through the whole procedure of a critical patient”, explains the practitioner. “It is really moving to know that we fought, that the doctors helped us to survive”, testifies the mom, who discovered her baby only 21 days after the delivery, after coming out of the coma, in last weekend. “ It’s a miracle, “added Javier Torres, the clinic’s intensive care coordinator, quoted by the Colombian daily El Weather . ”I think this is new, because what the literature says is that at this stage of gestation, the baby generally dies of Covid-19 “, If his mother is affected.
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The young woman, now cured of the coronavirus, does not know how she was infected and her family assures that she strictly respected the confinement imposed as of March 25 in Colombia. With more than 2,600 deaths and 80,000 cases declared, Colombia is the sixth most affected country in Latin America in number of deaths and the fifth in number of infections.
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