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Small maternity wards to be liquidated

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Jan. 13, 2023 17:25

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The liquidation of small maternity wards, where one hundred or two hundred children are born annually, should be continued. Such branches can only be justified in geographically excluded areas, such as the Bieszczady Mountains. Wherever possible, hospitals should communicate and connect small delivery rooms. Not only for the economic calculation, but above all - safety.

These are the most important conclusions from the Thursday meeting of the Health Committee, which dealt with the minister's information on the situation of pediatric and gynecological-obstetric wards. In both areas, wards are decreasing, one of the key factors is, of course, demographics, but the recipes for this situation are different: in the case of pediatrics, it is a challenge to find such a model of contracting and financing pediatric services that even in small hospitals, especially in infectious seasons, treatment of patients. In the case of maternity wards - obtaining a consensus that in the current conditions maintaining them in every hospital is pointless.

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