Kolkata: A newborn who developed a pneumonia pneumonia covid heavily after birth and struggling against infection for 23 days has now been reunited with his parents after recovery.
The doctor said that even when they found the number of severe Covid cases this time, it was not too ordinary for neonates to develop such pneumonia.
This newborn must be under ventilation for 14 days and must be treated with steroids.
Prabhas Procadher Giri, Associate Professor Pediatrics at the Institute of Child Health, said that even though there were few children who had severe disease recovery.
“The rate of recovery among children is very good at our hospital which has been above 99%,” Giri said.
“Some neonates may experience severe covid pneumonia but only after a week or later after birth but are not too common to improve it after birth,” said Dinesh Munian, responsible for the NICU at the Medical College Hospital (MCHK).
Professor of Pediatriatric at Mhk Mihir Sarkar said among infected children, infants under one year was a higher risk of ICU receipts.
Sarkar cites default problems such as heart disease, neurological disorders and metabolism make the baby more vulnerable.
Susmita Ghosh and Sourava Dhar were above the moon to become parents on January 12.
But their joy bundles developed about seven hours of breath pressure after birth in Sagore Dutta Hospital.
Dhar signed a risk bond to shift the baby to RG because where the doctor suspected the heart problem.
“When he heard about the possibility of a heart problem, we shift the baby to the Narayana Superspecialty (NSH) hospital in Howrah at my mother’s insistence,” said Dhar.
At the Howrah Hospital, the doctors found a newborn had very low oxygen saturation.
He was placed in a ventilator under the intensive care of pediatric subhadeep das.
Echo doesn’t show heart problems.
But Ray Chest X detects severe pneumonia.
Even when the doctor was originally suspected of default pneumonia, neonatus tested positive for RT-PCR was carried out.
The boy was sent home on Saturday.
But the recovery is a storm when a baby must restore ventilation on three occasions when the watershed team tries to put it from ventilation.
“We have children with sudden hearing loss and others with nephrotic syndrome.
But all children recover,” said Sumita Saha, pediatrician in Fortis Hospital.