Andhra Doctors Help Covid Woman Deliver Healthy Baby Before She Died

The nine-month pregnant woman Jayalakshmi was admitted to the hospital on June 2 and later moved to the ICU for ventilator treatment.

Doctors at King George Hospital in Andhra Pradesh managed to save the baby of a pregnant woman, just seconds before she died due to COVID-19 complications during the delivery, hospital officials said. Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Alla Nani appreciated the efforts of doctors who had on Saturday carried out an extremely challenging operation on the woman who was on ventilator and was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 related complications. The nine-month pregnant woman Jayalakshmi was admitted to the hospital on June 2 and later moved to the ICU for ventilator treatment. "We couldn't save the mother after delivering the baby. The baby is healthy but unfortunately, the mother Jayalakshmi died with a severe lung infection due to COVID," doctors at the hospital said.