In the two waves of the corona virus in Israel, midwives and members of the medical staff from confirmed asymptomatic maternity wards hospitalized in the mother and newborn wards were exposed and infected, as stated in the report released this morning. The required solution is: to improve the infrastructure in the wards to allow the mother and the newborn to stay, including a permanent companion in one room and for the whole The hospitalization period and thus reduce the risk of exposing the medical staff, the mothers and the babies to confirmed maternity patients who are not symptomatic. This is in contrast to the current instructions according to which the entry of visitors to the maternity ward should be minimized for fear of encouraging the infection.
The report also refers to the presence of parents in premature babies and states that for their proper development, premature babies need several hours a day of skin-to-skin contact with their parents – the kangaroo method. Premature babies received the supportive care required from their parents. This separation hurt the premature babies and also caused anxiety and frustration among the parents. The proposed short-term solution: allow the entry of parents who are not sick while making sure they wear masks and keep their distance. "Unfortunately, there is a lot of overcrowding in most premature babies in Israel, so the proposed solution is not supplier. The implementation of the requirement of the Israeli Association for Neonatal and Prematurity Medicine for the protection and construction of preemies in accordance with accepted standards, with single rooms for the preemie and his parents in the format of preemies existing in the Western world, must be accelerated," it was noted.
The report also indicates an increase of at least 50% in the psychological distress of parents of preterm infants and newborns; that mothers who have been separated from their babies tend to have greater emotional difficulty not only during the preterm period but also in the transition from preterm to home.
Dr. Shmuel Tsangan, chairman of the Israeli Association for Neonatology, member of the board The forum for premature infants, message: "We call on the Ministry of Health to invest in the establishment of preemies with separate rooms for prematures, as recommended in the Western world and to establish wards that allow the mother and newborn to stay together - home wards - in order to reduce the damage caused by the separation of parents from their babies."
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