{"id":3346,"date":"2022-07-13T21:16:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T21:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/13\/we-hope-for-the-best-son-war-nears-ukraine-maternity-ward\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T21:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T21:16:38","slug":"we-hope-for-the-best-son-war-nears-ukraine-maternity-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=3346","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We hope for the best, son&#8217; &#8211; War nears Ukraine maternity ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Pokrovsk Perinatal Centre is the last specialist ward in the eastern Donbas region under Ukrainian control. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The centre is around 40km (25 miles) from the nearest front line and it&#8217;s had to deliver babies during shelling throughout the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Pregnant women say they are anxious about where they can give birth and doctors have observed an increase in premature births, with 16.5% of babies born premature in Pokrovsk since 24 February. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">This compares with a 9% average across Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Dr Ivan Tsyganok, head of the centre said: &#8220;Labour is a process that cannot be stopped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video edited by Gem O&#8217;Reilly<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-62157659?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Pokrovsk Perinatal Centre is the last specialist ward in the eastern Donbas region under Ukrainian control. The centre is around 40km (25 miles) from the nearest front line and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}