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The last thing she remembered was how very cold it was when she was wheeled into the operating theatre for an emergency C-section. The next thing she woke up, confused and disoriented at being in a hospital room with a nurse trying to hand something to her.
Between those two moments, two months had passed. In that time Mbali Mbatha had given birth to a healthy baby girl – and made medical history as the first recipient of a Covid-19-related lung transplant.
Mbali (27), of course, knew none of it until she was brought out of a medically induced coma in February.
