By MALU CADELINA MANAR
KIDAPAWAN CITY – A 28-year-old COVID-19 survivor gave birth on Monday to a baby girl at the Cotabato Provincial Hospital here.
The mother appeared healthy after her bout with the disease last May, her attending physicians said.
She was the second resident of this city who was diagnosed with the virus after she was exposed to her husband who is an overseas Filipino worker when she visited him in the Middle East late March.
She works as a nurse in a private hospital here.
She is being taken care of by specialists from the CPH, including ostretrician-gynecologist, Dr. Josie Ofelia Lim-Tuburan; Dr. Neil Humprey Laquihon, COVID-19 provincial medical coordinator; and Dr. Alex Cabrera, chief of hospital of the CPH.
Staff from the Inter-Agency Task Force on COVID-19, led by Cotabato Provincial Board Member Dr. Philbert Malaluan, visited her at the hospital.
Catamco sent gifts both to the mother and the child to ensure their comfortable stay in the hospital. They are staying in a private room near the hospital’s quarantine facilities.
Malaluan said a swab sample was taken from the baby girl for her Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction test for COVID-19, according to Malaluan.
“Although this is not part of the health protocol of the Department of Health, but, still, we got a sample from the baby to really make sure if she carries the virus or has developed an immunity against it,” he said.
