Mongolian Health Minister, Deputy Prime Minister tender their resignations after COVID-19 newborn scandal
AKIPRESS.COM - On the evening of January 19, a live streaming news video showed a woman who gave birth a day before and her newborn baby being transferred from the Urgoo Maternity Hospital to the National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) without any warm outerwear and footwear in cold air temperature causing widespread public criticism. She was diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier that day and was transferred to the NCCD with her baby for quarantine, Montsame reports.
On the morning of January 20, officials from the National Center for Communicable Diseases and Urgoo Maternity Hospital issued official apology to the mother, the newborn baby and their family. Currently, the mother and the baby are staying at the quarantine facility of the NCCD under treatment together with the father who also tested positive for the coronavirus and all are in stable condition.