The medical team in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi succeeded in treating the smallest corona patient admitted to intensive care in the country, after he was exposed to complications of Covid 19 virus, while he was in a private hospital, where he received a 9-year-old Filipino child, Hervey Emmanuel Magus. The years of treatment required until he fully recovered from the disease, and returned to his home, while consulting the treating children revealed his condition, that the child remained on the artificial respiratory system for 11 days and used in the treatment protocol 4 types of drugs.
In detail, the mother of the youngest patient with Covid-19 entering intensive care, Hermali Sotomayor, revealed that the infection was transmitted to her and her child via her husband, who initially felt some fatigue, and reviewed a private hospital but did not examine the Corona, and after the symptoms of fever appeared on him was scanned To him, and tests confirmed his infection with the "emerging corona" virus as a result of contact with him because he did not travel during the recent period.
She said: "The tests showed that I and my child were also infected with Covid 19 as a result of the transmission of the virus to us from my husband, and we were all admitted to isolation in a private hospital, and after complications of" Hervey "in the northern lung, he was transferred to the intensive care in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, and put it On a breathing apparatus, ”referring to how she and her husband felt so afraid for her child, especially that he was their only son.
"And I feel happy to be in the Emirates in this difficult ordeal, where we all received the best care and attention and the complications of Hervey's condition were controlled through the treatment protocol that Sheikh Khalifa Medical City doctors set for him, where he remained in intensive care for about 19 days, and after that, He was transferred to the isolation room in the children's ward and remained there for 10 days until he was finally recovered.
She indicated that she and her husband recovered from "Corona" disease before their child, and they were following the condition of their child while he was in intensive care or isolation, through the medical and nursing staff at Sheikh Khalifa City Hospital, noting that the medical staff not only provided them with medical support but supported them psychologically Humanly, they were concerned with every detail of her child’s life while in the hospital, where doctors and nurses were keen to hold a party for her son after he left care to celebrate his birthday and complete his ninth year 8 days ago while he was on
his side. Dr. Al-Amin Abdullah Ahmed, a pediatrician consultant in Medina Sheikh Khalifa Al Bayya, the therapist for the child’s condition Hervey, that the sick child had reached Khalifa’s medical emergency, and he was suffering from severe inflammation on the left side of the lung and slight inflammation on the right side, then the condition developed on the second day and increased inflammation and he needed oxygen, and rays were made New to him, the right side was also affected by inflammation, so intensive care was contacted and transferred to it.
He said: "The child arrived at the emergency department on March 22, and was transferred to intensive care the next day. He was placed on a respirator inside intensive care from March 24 to April 4, and from the date of 5 to 11 April he remained in intensive care in oxygen doses. Alia, indicating that the treatment protocol for the emerging corona virus included 4 types of drugs that included regular anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, hydroxychloroquine, in addition to interferon.
"After the child left intensive care, he was placed in an isolation room, followed up with treatment, and implemented a physical therapy program for him so that he could move and walk, as his movement was affected in some way by his excess weight and his stay in the intensive care for a long time."
While Sheikh Khalifa Medical City announced the recovery of the smallest case of coronavirus in intensive care, and fully recovering from the symptoms of the disease after receiving the necessary health care since they entered the hospital, noting that the child Hervey Emmanuel Magus, his only parents, is the youngest patient with Covid-19 enters care Concentrated in the country, noting that he completed the nine years on April 1 and is in the intensive care room, where he entered Sheikh Khalifa Medical City on March 22, after registering his infection with the emerging corona virus.
She noted that the child Hervey entered intensive care on March 23, received the necessary treatment, after which his condition improved, he went out of care and was transferred to the children's ward on April 11, and his treatment was followed until he recovered from Covid-19 and was discharged from the hospital yesterday, April 21, and the staff Sheikh Khalifa Medical City organized a celebration of his birthday and an expression of their happiness that the child had recovered and was discharged from the hospital.