Gynecologists and Obstetricians Working Group to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Successful Experience to be Followed - Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
Rev Bras Ginecol Obstet. 2021;43(8):585-587
In addition to causing relevant changes in the global routine, the COVID-19 pandemic status announced and recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, made it clear that no country was ready to face an infectious disease that spread rapidly and involved objective risk of death. The retrospective assessment of the sequence of events and outcomes over the past 17 months leads us to reflect on what was done, what could have been done, or what should have been done differently. One of the great challenges in this context was defining which essential health services should not undergo continuity solutions. With regard to women’s health, part of the care routine was interrupted due to the emergency situation caused by COVID-19, while others continued to develop their activities following the health safety protocols. Reproductive planning services, care to victims of domestic and sexual violence and oncology stand out among those suffering significant reduction in the offer of services for diagnosis and treatment, which will certainly bring future and important repercussions for the health of the population.
In relation to obstetric care specifically, women continued to become pregnant and have their pregnancies resolved. At the beginning of the pandemic, we feared that women in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle would acquire SARS CoV-2 and based on the experience with the influenza epidemic in 2009, would present unfavorable outcomes.
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In addition to causing relevant changes in the global routine, the COVID-19 pandemic status announced and recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, made it clear that no country was ready to face an infectious disease that spread rapidly and involved objective risk of death. The retrospective assessment of the sequence of events and outcomes over the past 17 months leads us to reflect on what was done, what could have been done, or what should have been done differently. One of the great challenges in this context was defining which essential health services should not undergo continuity solutions. With regard to women's health, part of the care routine was interrupted due to the emergency situation caused by COVID-19, while others continued to develop their activities following the health safety protocols. Reproductive planning services, care to victims of domestic and sexual violence and oncology stand out among those suffering significant reduction in the offer of services for diagnosis and treatment, which will certainly bring future and important repercussions for the health of the population.
In relation to obstetric care specifically, women continued to become pregnant and have their pregnancies resolved. At the beginning of the pandemic, we feared that women in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle would acquire SARS CoV-2 and based on the experience with the influenza epidemic in 2009, would present unfavorable outcomes.
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