In Sangrur, special care for 8-day-old patient

Parvesh Sharma

Tribune News Service

Sangrur, May 31

The Health Department has been on its toes ever since an eight-day-old girl, who has tested positive for Covid-19, was admitted to the isolation centre in the district’s Ghabdan village. She was admitted on May 28.

Apart from taking care of the baby, the authorities have been working hard to provide her mother, who has tested negative, with the best facilities. She has to stay with her daughter all the time to feed her. The girl was born on May 23 at the Malerkotla civil hospital. After an ASHA worker posted here tested positive for the virus on May 25, doctors sent collected the samples of all her contacts and the baby girl, who was five days old then. Her test report came on May 28. Doctors have put the girl, her mother and the Asha worker in a separate room.

Dr Baljeet Singh, Senior Medical Officer at the Civil Hospital, said: “We have made special diet arrangements for the mother as she needs more milk and other nutrients than other patients. The good news is the baby is asymptomatic and healthy.”