‘It’s incredible’: GP finally meets baby son after pandemic separation
Dr Sivateja Mukkamala had to wait more than seven months to meet his son after his pregnant wife became stuck in India when international borders closed last year
Queensland GP Dr Sivateja Mukkamala met his son not as a newborn but as a bouncing almost-eight-month-old after pandemic border closures divided his family.
Dr Mukkamala, who practises in Ayr on the north Queensland coast, held baby Rudrashaivya for the first time in a Gold Coast quarantine hotel.
His wife Digvija had returned to India in January 2020 to visit family early in her pregnancy but was caught out when international borders closed.
Amid anxious efforts to get home, the baby arrived in India in mid-July.
