A young Covid-19 infected mother has given birth to a healthy baby girl at Liaquat University Hospital’s (LUH) city branch, the first such operation since the outbreak of the pandemic last year in February.

The mother was shifted to the Covid-19 isolation unit and the baby was transferred to a private hospital for care. The hospital administration started disinfecting the operation theatre in gynaecology unit-I after the mother had been shifted to the Covid-19 intensive care unit.

“The mother was quite scared after learning she had tested positive for Covid-19,” said Professor Sajida Yousufani, the gynaecologist in whose ward the baby was born after caesarean section. “We didn’t want to operate upon the mother as we were hopeful of a normal delivery but her family was extremely tense and so was the expecting mother,” said Dr Yousufani.

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