Midwives in a pandemic: A call for solidarity and compassion

In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced, the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) as a pandemic. The virus is now affecting more than 155 countries and territories worldwide – and growing. According to a report on lessons learned from the COVID-19 outbreak in China, published in JAMA, 1716 of 44672 (3.8%) health care personnel were infected in China, and in Wuhan 63% (1080 of 1716) health care professionals were infected, 247 of these were critical including 5 health care professionals who died [1].

Source: Women and Birth - March 29, 2020 Category: Midwifery Authors: Maeve O ’Connell, Susan Crowther, Claudia Ravaldi, Caroline Homer Source Type: research