The situation gets complicated in the Maternal and Child Hospital of Malaga after the new admissions of pregnant women, without vaccination, and who have tested positive in Covid.
In all the Malaga province the number of cases has risen to 23. Two of these women are bedridden in the Maternal Intensive Care Unit due to the high risk and complications that have arisen, according to what the SER string. In the set of Andalusia are 39 pregnant women admitted for coronavirus. Of these, only one is partially vaccinated, that is, it only has one administered dose.
The Ministry of Health and Families It has again made this Tuesday an appeal to pregnant women to “get vaccinated as soon as possible.” There is currently “a volume important number of pregnant women admitted“in hospitals because of Covid. The average age of these patients is 30 years.
The Board has urged that “don’t wait until after delivery” and that they get vaccinated “as soon as possible, since it is a high risk range for both her and the fetus.”
For Health it is about “a very serious situation because it endangers two lives“Pregnant women, he added, are of childbearing age and are, therefore, a group that has already been offered to be vaccinated,” but they do not do so because they fear that the vaccine could affect their children, and it is a mistake“.
“Children are not born with the virus” they clarify from the counseling, insisting that the newborns are infected by coming into contact with their positive mother and “that is where the fight to save, not one life, but two begins.”
The Ministry of Health and Families make it clear that vaccination it is recommended for any time of pregnancy.
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