A woman about to give birth tested positive for coronavirus just before she was in pain. "I got stuck on Friday and gave birth on Saturday," noted Lina Ortoulidou.
She wandered for hours ready to give birth and ended up giving birth alone in a coronavirus container outside the Bodosakio Ptolemaida.
"There was a panic. After the doctor ran up to me and said "did you give birth?" I said doctor I couldn't stand it. Within 5 minutes this happened. In five minutes" added Mrs. Ortoulidou.
"Two hours later I was told that there was no gynecologist"
She waited two hours at the hospital in Kozani only to be told in the end that there was no gynecologist to examine her.
"I waited two hours and suddenly a lady comes and says there is no doctor to examine you. And I tell her do something it hurts," added Lina Ortoulidou.
She was forced to go alone to the Bodosakio in Ptolemaida where she barely made it to the coronavirus container. "If I had waited for a gynecologist to come to Kozani, I would have given birth in the car," she added.
But even in Bodosakio she was not delivered by an obstetrician but by a young nurse from the emergency room who saw the woman about to give birth suddenly bursting into the ISOBOX. "What can I say to this girl. I am super grateful to her because she was the first hug my son got. The girl was terrified. She was telling me I was going to pass out. The doctor came and my family wrapped the baby with blankets," Mrs Ortoulidou added.
Lina is admitted to the hospital where she needed 10 days because of the coronavirus to hold her newborn angel in her arms. "A midwife tells me you want me to send you a video of your baby and you can't imagine what I was like. I waited 10 days to come out negative to hold my child," she added.
"I was vaccinated in the 8th month of pregnancy"
As she admits to LIVE NEWS, her vaccination proved to be a lifesaver in her 8th month of pregnancy as she passed the coronavirus almost asymptomatically.
"The doctor at Bodosakio told me that I was lucky to get the vaccine. I had the first one in November and the second one in December," said Lina Ortoulidou.
Her initial hesitations were neutralized in the face of the risk of making both herself and the fetus she was carrying seriously ill. "I thought, 'I'll have a good birth and then I'll have it later. I was also afraid to tell the truth but rather than risk for myself and my child I said I will do it and God help me," she added.gr
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