Infant tests COVID positive in Oman, put on ventilator support

Muscat: Sultan Qaboos University Hospital has registered a three month old infant as the first case on ventilator due to coronavirus.

Dr.Badr Nasser al Ghailani, Head of the Intensive Care Department at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, said in an interview with Oman TV that :"A 3-month-old child was infected with Corona, which is considered the first child on ventilator. We have received children infected with COVID-19 earlier , but this case is considered the first because the child is on ventilator where the child does not take the appropriate amount of oxygen even with the machine. We try to remove the child from the machine, but the child's body is small and do not have the ability to depend on herself for breathing. "

Dr. Saif bin Musabah is a Senior Consultant at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital added :" The total  number of patients at ICU has exceeded 250, and this number has not been seen before. The situation in the university hospital is like the situation in the rest of the hospitals in the regions of the Sultanate, where the occupancy rate in intensive care beds is almost 100 percent , and sometimes we have to transfer patients from the hospital to other hospitals in case they need a ventilator. "