Anishca Morris died weeks after being admitted with Covid-19 at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. Image: Supplied
She will never share a mother and daughter bond. She will never get see her child smile, cry, or hear the words “mommy”. The closest Anishca Morris came to her newborn daughter Azariah was through pictures on her cellphone.
Before she closed her eyes forever, Anishca called her mother and said: “Mommy, if I don’t make it out of here, just remember I love you all.”
Anishca died weeks after being admitted with Covid-19 at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. She had just given birth to her first daughter her second child via emergency C-section. But because of her diagnosis, she was never able to have direct contact with her child.