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Covid-19: Joy as nurse on oxygen support gets baby boy

The medic who has been put under oxygen support for the last one week had a normal delivery (Photo: Shutterstock)

July 24 will forever remain etched in the mind of a nurse at a Rachuonyo sub-county hospital in Homa Bay County, after she gave birth to a healthy baby boy while on oxygen support at the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital.

Hers was no ordinary pregnancy, given that she contracted the coronavirus when she was 33 weeks pregnant. 

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