Assam: Miracle keeps mother negative despite living with Covid-19 positive daughter for 11 days

GUWAHATI: Among the five recoveries in the state on Monday who were discharged from hospitals is the 13-year-old girl, who had tested positive on May 14 after returning from Mumbai following a heart surgery. Her healthy mother, who had refused to leave her Covid-19 positive daughter and stayed back with her at the isolation ward at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital miraculously stayed negative through these 11 days.
“We have tested her mother twice and both times she has tested negative despite staying with her Covid positive daughter,” Assam helath minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
“Rakhe Hari Mare Kune, Mare Hari Rakhe Kune (If God wants to protect you who can kill you, if God wants to kill you, who can protect you),” the mother said. She added, “My daughter cannot do anything on her own and how could I have left her behind in the isolation ward alone. I figured it out that if I kept myself away from the direct line of her face, I could keep myself protected. I would feed her in a manner such that we were both facing sideways. I was also regularly washing my hands,” she said.
Moved by the woman’s emotions, the Assam government could not say no to the woman who wanted to remain beside her 13-year-old daughter.
After they arrived from Mumbai on May 13 their sabs were tested when the test results came, the daughter was found positive but her mother was fit and healthy. As per protocol, the positive person has to be isolated immediately in a hospital but that did not happen here.
Sarma had then said that for the first time, the health department was allowing a Covid-negative person to stay together with a positive patient in one room in a hospital. Sarma had heaped respects for the mother who, he had said, despite knowing very well that she has high chance of getting infected with the virus and refused to part with her daughter. “This is an extraordinary example of motherly love,” Sarma had remarked then.
The duo was brought to Gauhati Medical College and Hospital and have been given a separate cabin away from the isolation ward for the positive people.