In Rostov-on-Don, a hospital has opened in the building of maternity hospital No. 5, which accepts military personnel wounded at the front. Midwives and a local resident, who was sent to give birth in neighboring Novocherkassk, told 161.RU about this.
According to the publication’s interlocutors, the maternity hospital patients were urgently distributed to other medical institutions at the end of February. At the same time, people in military uniform began to come to the building to inspect the building.
“It was on my shift. I went to the delivery room to pick up the Caesarean, to pick up the baby, and saw people [in uniform]. Then these people came down to our second floor, and I asked who it was. The midwife girls said: “These are warriors.” Well, you can’t hide it in a bag, we were told that there would be a military hospital here. The manager said: “They are looking for a building for a military hospital.” They asked how much equipment and monitors we have,” said one of the midwives.
Doctors say that for some time a military hospital operated in the maternity hospital along with the antenatal clinic. A woman in labor sent to Novocherkassk told reporters that on the morning of February 23, when her contractions began, she was “put out on the street.”
According to a midwife who worked at the medical institution, the maternity hospital staff were offered to stay in the hospital and care for the wounded soldiers. To do this, you need to undergo a three-month retraining course and “work a little in a special operation zone.” The regional Ministry of Health says that the work of the maternity ward has been suspended “for the period of final disinfection.”
“The provision of medical care will be resumed in the [new] building, which was put into operation after reconstruction. Pregnant women and women in labor are provided with all the necessary medical care in other specialized medical institutions of the city in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Health of the Rostov Region,” officials say.