'I felt like crying': Coronavirus shakes China's expecting mothers

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HONG KONG (NYTIMES) - The hospital waiting room was filled with dozens of women wearing homemade hazmat suits.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

HONG KONG - The hospital waiting room was filled with dozens of women wearing homemade hazmat suits.

Smaller community hospitals that offer obstetrics and gynaecological services are temporarily closed because of staff shortages. New mothers cannot get vaccinations for their newborn babies because entire cities and provinces have shut down clinics. Well baby checkups are being postponed. Without volunteer drivers, the women would not even be able to attend their scheduled doctor's appointments.

Ms Huang worries that if she does not find a hospital soon, neither she nor her baby will survive because of her hypertension and fragile kidney. Those who cannot afford it are at the mercy of public hospitals, most of which are severely understaffed. China's National Health Commission has told hospitals that if pregnant women are registered to give birth at a newly designated virus treatment centre they must"make reasonable arrangements as soon as possible" for those women.

The mother had been infected, but it was not clear if she transmitted the virus during her pregnancy or if the baby was infected immediately after it had been born.

 

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U shud have not touched wild animals at dinner n past. Now suffer

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