'Sometimes we've had to deliver babies during shelling,' one doctor said.
July 16, 2022, 9:15 AMPregnant Viktoriya Sokolovska, 16, sits inside Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, June 28, 2022.In the last specialist maternity ward still under Ukrainian control in the eastern Donbas region, the windows are packed with sandbags.
Tsyganok fears the stress of living under Russian attack has led to a spike in premature births, a fear borne out in initial data from the centre, shared with Reuters, and observed elsewhere in conflict zones. Baby Illiusha rests inside Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, June 28, 2022.But thanks to an incubator and the care he received at the clinic, he is now doing well.Comforting her tiny son, 35-year-old Buravtsova said she had been uncertain how she would give birth, as her village, close to the frontline city of Kurakhove, was shelled.
Doctors at the new centre anecdotally observed that the smouldering conflict, which would kill more than 14,000 people between 2014 and 2022, was having an impact on pregnancies.Marko Djurica/Reuters
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