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    I LOST TWO MONTHS OF MY LIFE

    Apr 16, 2021 4 minutes
    BY LESEGO MKHIZE

    THE last thing she remembered was how very cold it was when she was wheeled into the operating theatre for an emergency C-section. 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 history as the first recipient of a Covid-19-related lung transplant. But Mbali (27) knew nothing about it until she was brought out of a medically induced coma in February.

    She gave birth on 1 December and remembers how scared she was. “I felt so

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