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A new mother was said to be fighting for her life in hospital last night after being rushed straight from the maternity ward to intensive care with a serious case of swine flu.
Ashleigh Morrison, 24, reportedly fell ill last week, but still managed to give birth to a healthy baby girl delivered by Caesarean section on Saturday.
She is understood to have spent the last four days in a medically induced coma as doctors at Crosshouse Hospital, near Kilmarnock, believe she will have a better chance of beating the illness unconscious.
Relatives now face an anxious wait to see mother and baby healthy and reunited. But the disease ? which has already claimed the lives of two Scots this winter ? is not expected to retreat before Christmas.
A spokeswoman for NHS Ayrshire and Arran declined to comment on Ms Morrison?s condition last night as she had not given written permission.
Doctors have urged all patients eligible for flu vaccines to contact their GP surgeries as cases of the virus surge.
So far this winter there have been 26 confirmed cases of the illness in Scotland and two people have died.
The British Medical Association Scotland yesterday issued a plea to pensioners and people with long-term health problems such as diabetes and asthma to come forward for vaccination against the bug.
Ashleigh Morrison, 24, reportedly fell ill last week, but still managed to give birth to a healthy baby girl delivered by Caesarean section on Saturday.
She is understood to have spent the last four days in a medically induced coma as doctors at Crosshouse Hospital, near Kilmarnock, believe she will have a better chance of beating the illness unconscious.
Relatives now face an anxious wait to see mother and baby healthy and reunited. But the disease ? which has already claimed the lives of two Scots this winter ? is not expected to retreat before Christmas.
A spokeswoman for NHS Ayrshire and Arran declined to comment on Ms Morrison?s condition last night as she had not given written permission.
Doctors have urged all patients eligible for flu vaccines to contact their GP surgeries as cases of the virus surge.
So far this winter there have been 26 confirmed cases of the illness in Scotland and two people have died.
The British Medical Association Scotland yesterday issued a plea to pensioners and people with long-term health problems such as diabetes and asthma to come forward for vaccination against the bug.
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