Expectant mothers in the Ukraine-controlled Donetsk region are served by just one remaining maternity facility, packed with sandbags and sometimes delivering babies during shelling
13 July 2022 - 16:31Pregnant Viktoriya Sokolovska, 16, sits inside Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, June 28 2022. She has since given birth to a healthy daughter, Emilia. Picture: REUTERS/MARKO DJURICA
The centre, roughly 40km from the closest front line, gives a glimpse of the suffering the war is inflicting on pregnant women — their anxiety over where they can give birth, fears of whether the hospital will come under attack, and what doctors have observed to be an increased rate of early labour. Katya Buravtsova’s second child, Illiusha, was among those born early, delivered at only 28 weeks. He would have had “zero chance” of survival if not for the centre, said Tsyganok.“We looked after him 24 hours a day,” Tsyganok said, wearing turquoise scrubs and Crocs.
Doctors at the new centre anecdotally observed that the smouldering conflict, which would kill more than 14,000 people between 2014 and 2022, was having an affect on pregnancies.
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