Nkantini was transferred to Netcare N1 City Hospital in Goodwood in Cape Town, but on arrival she lost consciousness and had to be placed on a ventilator in the hospital’s “red zone” for Covid-19 patients.
“From then I can’t remember anything until I woke up days later, when I was told I had suffered complications and my baby had been delivered by emergency C-section.”
Nkantini’s baby was delivered at 25 weeks on December 17 while she was unconscious and on a ventilator fighting for her life.
“They told me my baby is in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit), but I was so overwhelmed.