Chandigarh, April 22 :A seven-month-old baby from Phagwara with a congenital heart defect tested positive for coronavirus at Chandigarh’s Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, doctors said on Wednesday.
The baby had been admitted to Ludhiana’s Apollo Hospital Ludhiana until April 8, and was then moved to Chandigarh’s Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, where she was critically ill and required continuous ventilator support and antimicrobials.
She was to undergo a corrective surgery when the coronavirus infection was diagnosed. The source of the infection is yet unknown.
“After a detailed assessment by the cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons, she was due to be taken up for open-heart surgery in the Advanced Cardiology Centre, PGI. However, a preoperative test for COVID-19 turned out to be positive on April 21,” read an official statement by PGI.
The baby was subsequently moved to PGI’s COVID facility in Nehru Hospital Extension, PGI, and continues to receive ventilator support.
