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Please read the thread to know how we tried to understand the challenges pregnant women faced to seek institutional care during COVID-19 lockdown in India! Our new paper in IJME.
Our paper on #challengesfaced by #pregnantwomen during COVID-19 lockdown in Indian Journal of Medical Ethics at https://t.co/leCUx2m4qN. Wonderful to see this out!
Thread Alert!!! Fresh off the press.
@_sshrivastava @Sivakami_Mu and I looked at the challenges encountered by pregnant women while seeking institutional care during the lockdown. Published in @IndJMedEthics (Check the link)
https://t.co/4p3fL2FBj0
- Most women visited 2-3 hospitals before they were admitted.
- Some women visited more than five facilities, going back and forth between govt and pvt hospitals before finally being admitted.
- 27 articles reported deaths - 16 fetal deaths & 16 maternal deaths.
End of thread.
What we found?
Pathways for 49 women seeking institutional care.
- 17 women delivered at home/roadside/outside the hospital/in transit.
- 32 women delivered at a hospital (19 govt &13 pvt)
- Only 1/3rd of the women were provided care at the first facility they visited.
What we did?
- Searched news articles describing challenges of pregnant women in seeking institutional care.
- Time period - 25th March - 31st May, 2020
- Conducted content analysis of these news articles
- 54 news articles - 31 English, 23 Hindi
- News reports from 17 states
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