Burns survivor must wait to hold her newborn baby girl in central China
Mother and child both in intensive care after another deadly blaze sparked by faulty electric vehicles
A heavily pregnant woman in central China has given birth to a baby girl, days after she suffered severe burns to more than 85 per cent of her body.
Huang Qingqing was lucky to survive a deadly blaze which broke out at her dormitory block in Jinyin village near the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province on August 25, according to Shanghai news site Thepaper.cn on Thursday.
Firefighters rescued Huang, who was seven months pregnant, from the first floor where she lived with her husband Liu Zhengqiang.
On September 1, while still recovering in intensive care at Zhengzhou First People’s Hospital, she went into labour and gave birth 48 hours later to a child weighing a mere 2.5 pounds.
The infant was immediately rushed to neonatal intensive care with an infection contracted in the womb, as a result of the severity of her mother’s burns.
“At the moment, the child’s health is in a stable condition,” Zhang Bing, a paediatrician at the Zhengzhou hospital, told Henan state television.
