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Video calls connect anxious parents to hospitalized newborns in Colombia - Reuters
Deysi Silva cannot see, hug or kiss her infant daughter.
The child, born last month at a hospital in Colombia’s capital Bogota amid the coronavirus pandemic, is hospitalized in a neo-natal unit where visits are forbidden to protect the vulnerable babies from possible infection.
But family members of newborns in the unit at Kennedy Hospital are speaking to their babies via hundreds of video calls organized by staff.
“I love you so much daughter, hopefully soon we’ll be together again. You know I love you so much, your dad does too,” 30-year-old Silva, originally from Venezuela, said through tears as she looked at her daughter Deysi Mar Victoria’s image.
Deysi Silva cannot see, hug or kiss her infant daughter.
The child, born last month at a hospital in Colombia’s capital Bogota amid the coronavirus pandemic, is hospitalized in a neo-natal unit where visits are forbidden to protect the vulnerable babies from possible infection.
But family members of newborns in the unit at Kennedy Hospital are speaking to their babies via hundreds of video calls organized by staff.
“I love you so much daughter, hopefully soon we’ll be together again. You know I love you so much, your dad does too,” 30-year-old Silva, originally from Venezuela, said through tears as she looked at her daughter Deysi Mar Victoria’s image.