LIMA, Peru (AP) – Before giving birth in Peru’s largest motherhood, María Alvarez closed her eyes and asked for her mask.
“Where’s my husband?” She. “I my husband to come.”
But the baby’s father, Marco Martinez, had died a month earlier from the new coronavirus.
Maria, who had an asymptomatic case of the virus, gave birth to her first child, a daughter, at the age of 24 in a mother’s room with COVID-19.
The National Perinatal and Maternal Institute of Peru has been committed in part to the care of inflamed pregnant women. Between April and early August, more than 2,000 inflamed patients gave birth, adding up to 120 babies.
One in 4 people in the Peruvian capital of 10 million people may be inflamed with the coronavirus, according to a study published by the health administration in July, with more than 483,000 people showing other people inflamed across the country of 32 million and more than 21,000 dead.
Despite dressing up in non-public protective devices and taking other steps to save the infection, 400 of the institute’s 2,000 employees were also infected, said its director, Enrique Guevara.
Doctors and nurses take care of deliveries, but the institute has banned couples or other family members, and pregnant women are transported to the hospital in wheelchairs through transparent blankets to prevent the spread of the virus.
He returned to Peru in November after running for years at an electronics store in Chile.
Alvarez pregnant and, after the coronavirus hit Peru, the two went to paint for a friend sewing masks.
Martinez has converted and died in June. Alvarez took a check that turned out positive, but never developed any symptoms.
He felt contractions on July 29 and ran to the hospital in a set of blue clothes for the boy whose doctors had announced the arrival. To her surprise, she gave birth to a daughter.
A few days after giving birth, while recovering in her secluded bed, she said she still didn’t know how to call her daughter.
“What I know, ” he said. “I don’t need her to suffer like her mom and dad.”