A 26-year-old Filipina, who suffered from severe COVID pneumonia, has successfully delivered twin babies at a hospital in Dubai.
Mariecen Nituma Agillon was 31 weeks pregnant when she started experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 and as her condition worsened the woman was admitted to the NMC Specialty Hospital, Al Nahda, Dubai.
At the hospital, she tested positive for Covid-19 and was kept in the isolation ward for treatment while her husband, Kenneth Zamora, also tested positive around the same time and was admitted to the quarantine center of the Dubai Health Authority.
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Agillon was put on seven liters of oxygen to maintain her blood oxygen levels while her blood tests indicated high infection and inflammation and a chest x-ray showed pneumonia on both sides.
Head of the department and specialist physician at NMC Specialty Hospital, Al Nahda, Dubai, Dr Rakesh Sankar, said the usual pregnancy can lead to complications in COVID-19, and the woman apart from having COVID pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome faced other complications of severe anemia, bacterial pneumonia with sepsis and “high heart rate (150-160bpm) suggestive of thyroid condition.”
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After being admitted for two days in the intensive care unit of the hospital, Agillone recovered and has now been discharged after getting a negative PCR test. However, she was readmitted the next day for premature labor, and tested COVID positive once again.
Specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist at the hospital, Dr Praveena Saraf, said after an emergency C-section was successfully performed Agillone delivered two preterm 32-week-old baby girls, weighing 1.4kg and 1.6kg respectively. The babies however tested negative for Covid-19. Agillon and her babies were discharged two weeks after the delivery. (AW)
