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Article: 'She died wishing to see her baby'.
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- Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2009
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Byline: Binsal Abdul Kader, Staff Reporter
Abu Dhabi: The family of an Indian nurse, who died of H1N1 at a hospital in Al Ain last week, is distraught that they could not fulfil her last wish of seeing her newborn baby.
The family is also desperate to know how and from where she got infected with the virus. Sunita, sister-in-law of 27-year-old victim Deepthi Gopinath, and a nurse herself, said: "In our field, it is quite natural that we attend to suspected swine flu cases."
Sunita recalled that while hooked up to a ventilator in her dying moments, Deepthi called for paper and pen and wrote that she wanted to see her newborn baby. "But we could ...