As per a recent update, a newborn - three-day-old boy - has tested positive for Coronavirus on Wednesday. Report states that the baby was born at Chembur's Sai Hospital on March 26, 2020, and tested positive for COVID-19. The mother has also tested positive and they have now been shifted to Kasturba Hospital for further treatment.
The newborn is the youngest coronavirus patient in Maharashtra and it is.suspected that they may have got the virus from the bed which was earlier occupied by another infected patient. In a recent investigation, the family has informed that no paediatrician has visited the patients yet, ever since they were admitted at Kasturba Hospital. In an interview with The Indian Express, he said that the father had booked at twin room at Sai Hospital, owing to the current COVID-19 concerns, but few hours post the delivery, they were shifted to a different bed without any reason.
Father of the three-day-old baby pleads for extra care. Requests @narendramodi and @OfficeofUT to offer assistance. The baby and the mother tested positive for #Coronavirus on March 27
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Doctors then asked the couple to get tested and so they submitted nasal swabs at a private lab on March 27. Unfortunately, both the baby and the mother tested positive, and the 32-year-old father claims that neither a nurse or a doctor had visited the patients. BMC then shut down the hospital on March 31, 2020, for sanitisation purposes.
The worried father has also said that once they were shifted to Kasturba Hospital, no doctor has attended the baby. The hospital has further confirmed that only symptomatic treatment has been given to both the patients.
Kasturba hospital currently treats more than 120 COVID-19 patients.
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