Mother of premature twins died of respiratory failure from COVID (overview)



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Since the beginning of the pandemic, UMBAL has provided mothers of premature babies the opportunity to view them through Viber.

Theodora’s two babies, born in the eighth month, and the 4-year-old girl his sister is orphaned because the father died shortly before his birth

It is not yet clear who will take care of the babies, because the parents were not married.

The coronavirus infection killed 32-year-old Teodora from Karnobat, who was admitted to UMHAT-Burgas, 8 months pregnant. The woman died at 7 p.m. on March 16 in the intensive care unit, the hospital reported. The cause of death was respiratory failure.

Then

Your condition

got worse, she

he was intubated

and he was in command of breathing for two days.

On March 15, the University Hospital announced that the patient was already breathing on her own, but even so they clarified that the condition was still very serious.

As she wrote “24 hours” the day before, Theodora managed to see her twins on Viber, which degenerated into an emergency last week. The neonatology department showed a recording of the babies who will remain in the hospital for a long time.

They, like their 4-year-old sister, remain orphans, as the father died of complications from the coronavirus days before. Hristo, 36, died in the intensive care unit of UMHAT-Burgas, where he was transferred by the lung hospital. This happened a few days before doctors urgently degenerated the twins that Theodora was pregnant. Within days of her death, the woman also worsened.

“Hristo never managed to recognize his boys. He and Theodora were not married, but they lived well, of course. However, it is now unclear what will happen to the children,” commented people from Karnobat.

“The babies are fine, but they will stay with us until they reach a certain condition and weight. They are under constant specialized care. Each of them weighs 1,600 grams,” said the head of neonatology Dr. Stiliana Tomova.

After being discharged from the hospital, the two twins are likely to be placed in a “maternal and child home” to raise them to a weight of 2,500 grams, the doctors explained.

The young couple fell ill at the same time, in early March. Both were overweight and suffered from comorbidities. The pregnant woman had diabetes and thrombosis, so on March 6 she was admitted to the infectious diseases department of the University Hospital, and the man, to the pulmonary hospital.. However, his condition drastically deteriorated and he died of acute heart failure.

“The tragedy is great.

People are already calling

ready to help

with what they can to the family, to the children, but the case with them is legal, ”said the mayor of Karnobat Georgi Dimitrov.

He specified that the situation in the city is difficult and the doctors are on the edge. Of the 25 COVID beds discovered at the local hospital, 25 are occupied. The most serious cases are transported to Burgas.

“We have what we need, we have drugs, including remdesivir,” the mayor said.

The newly infected in Karnobat as of March 16 are 16 years old, and among them are children, at least 4 years old.



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