“I was scared and tense, not only from the moment of birth, but from how I will be placed when hospitals are closed and the Corona virus is spreading,” with those words Sara - 28 years old - began to narrate her suffering about her experience in childbirth after the outbreak of Corona virus in Yemen.

Sarah and sadness continues with her eyes as she remembers the details of what happened to her a month ago, "Because of Corona, my doctor closed her clinic for two weeks, which caused depression and anxiety."

Sarah - from Aden city - like other pregnant women suffered from distress and anxiety due to the closure of the clinics for women and childbirth, so when the pains came to her, they were not received, but she had symptoms of certain labor, with no specialists available, and she added: She was born at the hands of a midwife and was unable to From cleaning the stool of the newborn in me, and I was transferred to other clinics, until we found a specialized team for that in Al-Sadaqa Hospital, and thank God the cleaning was done, but my child died in my stomach without knowing ...

Since the outbreak of the Corona virus, many hospitals and private clinics in Aden have been closed, and some of them have remained open, while taking as much caution and caution as possible. Dr. Anhar Faisal, an obstetrician gynecologist in Aden, says: It is true that the situation was difficult, but I did not close my clinic, rather I took precautions by obliging the patients and escorts to take preventive measures And prohibiting entry to anyone other than the pregnant woman, and praise be to God, we only encountered one suspected case of our corona, and we dealt with her as necessary.

For her part, Doaa Al-Ahdal, a resident doctor in obstetrics and gynecology, says that since the spread of the Corona virus in Aden, many cases of pregnant women who were infected with the virus have been received in her clinic.

And that all of them did not reach the critical stage, and she adds: That is why we dealt with them as it is with any person with Corona and we guide them to use vitamins and treatments to raise immunity, and we advise them about natural things that help them greatly, and this does not deny that some of them, due to their very weak immunity, lost their fetuses in the first months.

And Dr. Al-Ahdal’s advice remains to adhere to preventive measures, to retire, to use vitamin supplements (C / D), to inhale a black pill, and to keep gargling with warm water and salt.

For her part, twenty-year-old Amani, a pregnant woman in her first months, says: It is true that some clinics have taken some preventive measures, but we go and we are afraid and if it were not necessary, we would have stayed at home.

After a long sigh, Amani continues to say: We may always feel anxious about the difficult conditions in which we are living, and one of us thinks a thousand times and asks: Will she give birth while the hospitals are open or closed, is the situation stable, and with all this Corona came to complete the rest of our tragedies.

Many pregnant women consulted doctors and communicated with them through social media platforms, and a number of doctors volunteered to form initiatives to provide advice and guidance to all who need it.

Dr. Mayada Muhammad Al-Danakli, a consultant obstetrician and gynecologist and the general secretary of the I am a doctor, I can, indicated that since the spread of the Corona virus in Aden, more than 500 consultations were provided per day through the initiative that was launched to provide medical advice, and Al-Danakli added: There were consultations for women. Pregnant women have been infected with the virus or are suspected of being infected with it, and we have provided them with the necessary advice and appropriate treatments to raise their immunity, indicating that the virus has infected a small number of pregnant women compared to others, and that there are a large number of those who were infected, and did not express fear, or think that infection with the virus is a stigma.

Dr. Mayada continues her speech: It has not been proven to this day that the virus is transmitted from the pain of a pregnant woman to the fetus. In Britain, for example, they discovered the infection of the first child a few hours after his birth, and they thought that he had transmitted to him through his mother, but after the necessary tests it was found that it was erected after birth during direct contact with his infected mother, and this It means that the infected pregnant mother does not transmit the virus to the fetus while it is in her stomach, she said.

Al-Dunkali stressed that most countries of the world, according to the protocols, were advised to reduce visits to clinics for pregnant women, and that taking consultations should be through the use of remote communication applications such as WhatsApp or other social media programs.

It should be noted, the statement of the United Nations Population Fund, which made it clear that more than 48,000 women could die due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth in Yemen, where the worst humanitarian crisis in the world is due to the acute shortage of funding and the possible closure of reproductive health facilities amid the increasing risks posed by it. novel coronavirus.

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