Valletta: A Maltese man who came to India to finalize the adoption of a baby girl has succumbed to Covid-19.
Ivan Barbara contracted the disease in India where he had come with his wife.
The Maltese Health Ministry said in a statement on April 30 that the 47-year-old was expected to arrive in Malta on an air ambulance that night.
He developed complications only minutes before boarding the aircraft, and died minutes after being transferred onto the plane.
The couple contracted Covid-19 while they were making final arrangements to return to Malta, and the man’s condition took a turn for the worse in the last of April, with doctors considering putting him in an induced coma at one point.
His condition had improved slightly, but the situation remained serious – especially as Indian hospitals run out of oxygen to use for ventilators.
The man was at the Manavta Hospital in Faridabad, outside New Delhi.
He was set to be flown to Malta on an air ambulance contracted from France which is equipped with a ventilator.
When the couple to India, the Covid situation was under control, but it deteriorated rapidly since then, especially after the emergence of a double mutant variant of the virus.
Source: independent.com.mt