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A medic who gave birth to twins while in a coma due to coronavirus has described their survival as “amazing”. Perpetual Uke, a rheumatology consultant at Birmingham City Hospital in the UK ended up on a ventilator, in an induced coma in March. She was taken to the city's Queen Elizabeth Hospital where fellow medics decided to deliver the babies by caesarean section. When brave Perpetual eventually came out of her coma she assumed they hadn't made it only to be presented with Palmer, a girl, and Pascal, a boy, weighing only 770g and 850g.
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