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Nurses in Indian hospital care for baby whose mother tested positive for COVID-19

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Four nurses of the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) are playing the role of a mother in the city-based hospital.

With the mother and two other family members of a three-month-old baby boy infected with the novel coronavirus and undergoing treatment at AIIMS Raipur, the four nurses are now giving motherly care to the infant.

In the video two nurses, donning protective gear, are seen feeding milk to the baby through a bottle.

"The 27-year-old woman (the infant''s mother) tested positive on April 12. Her two kids - a 22-month-old girl and a three-month-old boy - were also brought along with her to AIIMS and kept in a separate room in the isolation ward," AIIMS (PRO) S S Sharma said

"Since no close relative of the woman was immediately available to take care of the kids, our nursing staff came forward to look after them," he said.

Later, the womans brother was called to take care of the children but he also tested positive for coronavirus, Sharma said.

Then doctors called the maternal grandmother of the children but unfortunately she was also found positive for the viral infection, he said.

As the two children were in direct contact with the infected persons, their samples were also sent for screening which came out negative, he said.

However, a second test on both kids will be conducted in the next five days and if the results came negative they will be handed over to their other family members, he said.

The two kids have been kept under observation and are being fully taken care of by the nurses of the isolation ward, Sharma said.

Their father, who later reached the hospital, is looking after his elder child, while the infant boy is under care of four members of the nursing staff, he further said.

The Family belong from Katghora town of Korba district Chhattisgarh India.

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