More than fifty women are crowded into the basement of the Odessa hospital. They are the patients of the maternity ward, who are with their newborn babies. In this sense, Jaime Nadal, responsible for UNFPA in Ukraine, affirms that “there is nothing that justifies that a woman at the moment of giving life has to expose herself until she can lose hers.” It is estimated that several hundred deliveries have taken place in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion no minimum safety or hygiene.
Katerina confesses that she was terrified when she had to give birth, but thanks to the tireless work of the paramedics, she and her baby are fine. However, of the nearly 100,000 women who are estimated to give birth in the next three months in Ukraine, some 11,000 could face complications, even before going into labor, such as suffering “miscarriages”, as Jaime Nadal warns. , who claims that this “these are not collateral damage of war, but direct deaths”.
The UN Population Fund or Unicef have delivered material to hundreds of Ukrainian hospitals. in the of Mariupola nurse carries a newborn baby straight into a bunkersince the bombs continue to sound outside.
Protection for little Mia came in a Kiev metro tunnel, where his mother gave birth. Only last Saturday night, there would have been more than 80 cases like his. “Hospitals are being used little because of the population’s fear of going to them,” says Nadal in this regard. There are other mothers who directly decide to run away and risk a long and uncertain journey with their children. For them, NGOs have deployed specialized help at border posts.
Source: Lasexta
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