AFP)
Sri Lankan doctors performed emergency surgery
Thursday to save a pregnant Covid-19 patient, delivering
quadruplets who tested negative for the virus, a state-run hospital
said.
The 25-year-old woman was rushed into a Caesarean-section
surgery to deliver the babies prematurely as her condition
deteriorated, the director at the De Soysa maternity hospital,
Sagarika Kiriwandeniya, said.
“We had to deliver the babies before full term because the
mother was developing complications,” Kiriwandeniya told reporters
in Colombo. “The mother and her four babies are in a stable
condition but under intensive care,”
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The hospital assembled a team of 35 medical staff, including 19
doctors, to perform the procedure on the woman, who was in her 32nd
week of pregnancy.
A rapid antigen test showed that the babies — two boys and two
girls — do not have Covid-19, Kiriwandeniya said, adding that the
multiple births added new challenges because the mother had
Covid-related complications.
The babies weighed between 1.1 kilograms (2.42 pounds) and 1.6
kilograms (3.52 pounds).
Virus infections have surged in Sri Lanka since October, when
the number of cases increased more than tenfold to 35,387, with 160
deaths.
AFP
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