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“June 29 the daughter was born, so she was born a little earlier, 37 weeks and when we were discharged from the hospital, she said that there was a risk of jaundice. As it is difficult to visit a family doctor, only remote consultations are made, we were recommended to go to Santariškės, to the Department of Admission of Children, where they will be reviewed ”, said L. Silienė about the situation.
Seeing that the baby began to turn yellow, the reader decided to go to the reception of the Clinics of the Children’s Hospital of Santara. Medical examination has shown that bilirubin, a pigment that causes jaundice, is elevated, requiring hospitalization for phototherapy, which requires a COVID-19 test.
Separate the weekly baby from the mother?
“They say that then we put the baby to bed and you go home to wait for the test response, which lasts 6 to 8 hours. How? Why? Separate the weekly baby from the mother? “, I ask.
When asked if an isolation room could be provided, the doctor said, according to the interlocutor, that there was none and that he could not enter the neonatology room without a test result:
“I say, how can you tell the difference? I have been told that such rules. I mean, after all, I feed it myself, what do they offer? They say the sisters will feed the mixture, or you can express the milk yourself, we will feed it every few hours. “
The interlocutor did not agree with such a proposal, and when the department heads called about the situation, she also shrugged: “I understand, there is no logic, but there are no such rules.”
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“Even more so because it leads me to sign the documents for the COVID-19 test that we do and there is a mark: either I agree to be isolated in a separate room or go home and wait for a response.” That’s fine, I say, I notice that I isolate myself in a separate room, “he said.
According to her, an hour later, a free room was found, in fact, in a completely different department, Orthopedics.
“After the negative response, we were transferred together to the neonatal ward for further treatment. For some reason, no one has been able to explain or show where such internal procedure is described that mothers are separated from babies due to the probability of COVID-19, ”said the interlocutor.
L. Silienė’s friend had a similar situation a week later. It was also discovered that her baby was jaundiced, awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test offered at home, and leaving the baby in the hospital.
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“It was Sunday night, that is, we called you at night. She did not agree to leave her baby of the week, asked her to find a ward, but they told her that she did not have a ward, “said L. Silienė.
After telling a friend about the L.Silienė case, the doctors called the award of the room a “mistake” and emphasized that it would not happen again.
“She did not agree to leave her son, agreed to go home at night with her son after taking exams, and in the morning they called them from Santariškės so that everything is fine, you can come,” he said.
According to the head of the Neonatology Center of the Santara Clinics doc. Dr. R. Liubšis, the hospital has an approved hospitalization procedure for pregnant women, mothers, and mothers during the COVID-19 period.
“In any case, before hospitalizing a mother with a newborn, the COVID-19 test should be done and, if negative, the mother may be hospitalized with a newborn.”
After testing on COVID-19 prior to scheduled hospitalization, patients wait for a response, either in isolation rooms or agree to wait for a test response at home, ”A. Liubšys recalled of the procedure.
It is true, as noted, the neonatology room currently has 2 separate and isolated rooms in which the mother, along with the newborn, can receive a response to the COVID-19 study.
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