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Alarming Newborn Deaths Shut Down Maternity Hospital No. 1
Written by Ch.Sumiyabazar
Friday, January 22, 2010.
ImageUlaanbaatar?s Maternity Hospital No.1 has been temporarily shut down after three newborn baby reportedly died of a highly infectious and fatal disease outbreak in the hospital.
Nineteen newborn babies were reported to be infected with the umbilical infection disease, and three died. The health conditions of the remaining babies are reported as stable but two are in critical condition, according to health authorities, and they have been transferred to four other hospitals for intensive medical treatment. Infection of the umbilical cord after birth can result from unhygienic methods of cutting the cord or lack of hygienic care of the umbilical cord stump until it falls off.
The Deputy Minister of Health J.Tsolmon denied that it was umbilical infection disease. ?The infection was caused, we believe, by a new type of virus, not the umbilical infection,? said Tsolmon to the media. But she acknowledged a sanitary regime at the hospital building, which had not seen any major maintenance work for over 20 years, was not properly maintained.
The Ulaanbaatar government invited expert inspectors from Japan to determine whether the virus is in the air of the maternity hospital. The inspection would also be made in the two other maternity hospitals of the city. ?We worked at the hospital, taking samples from the hospital?s utilities,? said D.Nyamkhuu, director of the National Research Center of Communicable Diseases.
The Government of Ulaanbaatar quickly dismissed the director general, and surgeon doctors of the hospital and appointed new people to take over the positions. Tsolmon blamed hospital management officers for their failure to report to the government level health institutions about the infection outbreak, in timely manner. According to government officials, the infection might have first occurred in December 2009.
The new management of the hospital denied recent media reports that the hospital lacks efficient supply of necessary medicine, and it requires mothers to buy medicine and injections from outside sources. The maternity hospital is expecting to reopen on February 1.
Alarming Newborn Deaths Shut Down Maternity Hospital No. 1
Written by Ch.Sumiyabazar
Friday, January 22, 2010.
ImageUlaanbaatar?s Maternity Hospital No.1 has been temporarily shut down after three newborn baby reportedly died of a highly infectious and fatal disease outbreak in the hospital.
Nineteen newborn babies were reported to be infected with the umbilical infection disease, and three died. The health conditions of the remaining babies are reported as stable but two are in critical condition, according to health authorities, and they have been transferred to four other hospitals for intensive medical treatment. Infection of the umbilical cord after birth can result from unhygienic methods of cutting the cord or lack of hygienic care of the umbilical cord stump until it falls off.
The Deputy Minister of Health J.Tsolmon denied that it was umbilical infection disease. ?The infection was caused, we believe, by a new type of virus, not the umbilical infection,? said Tsolmon to the media. But she acknowledged a sanitary regime at the hospital building, which had not seen any major maintenance work for over 20 years, was not properly maintained.
The Ulaanbaatar government invited expert inspectors from Japan to determine whether the virus is in the air of the maternity hospital. The inspection would also be made in the two other maternity hospitals of the city. ?We worked at the hospital, taking samples from the hospital?s utilities,? said D.Nyamkhuu, director of the National Research Center of Communicable Diseases.
The Government of Ulaanbaatar quickly dismissed the director general, and surgeon doctors of the hospital and appointed new people to take over the positions. Tsolmon blamed hospital management officers for their failure to report to the government level health institutions about the infection outbreak, in timely manner. According to government officials, the infection might have first occurred in December 2009.
The new management of the hospital denied recent media reports that the hospital lacks efficient supply of necessary medicine, and it requires mothers to buy medicine and injections from outside sources. The maternity hospital is expecting to reopen on February 1.
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