Photo: Vladimir MilovanovićThe maternity hospital in Nis has forbidden women who give birth less than two months from using mobile phones in the preparation rooms, where some women spend hours and sometimes even days. After a stormy reaction from Nišlijka, this ban was lifted, but it is still forbidden to accompany the child during childbirth. The same ban applies in most state maternity hospitals in Serbia
Less than two months after the order that women in labor cannot use mobile phones in the preparation rooms in the Nis Maternity Hospital, this decision has been changed, and as confirmed by the UCC Nis - they can still use it everywhere except in the delivery room, they write. Southern news.
Among the numerous justifications of the authorities for the adoption of such a ban, and then its abrupt cancellation, was that some women wanted to film their childbirth, instead of actively participating in it.
The Acting Director of the University Clinical Center, Zoran Perišić, who brought this ban, said that the phones were discontinued because of the corona virus, and as he explained in the show "Between the Lines", there was a short-term infection with covid among newborns, and the epidemiological analysis showed that it was likely the route of transmission of the virus was "through mothers exchanging phones with each other".
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Attendance at childbirth is still not allowed
Although the end of the corona virus pandemic has been declared, in the maternity hospital in Nis, accompaniment during childbirth, as well as visits, are still not allowed.
As Juzne Vesti writes, many women in labor suspected that such decisions were made in order to cover up obstetric violence.
GAK Director Dejan Mitić said in the "15 Minutes" show about objections to obstetric violence: "If it existed, women would give birth at home."
The end of the pandemic, but not the ban
In the state maternity hospitals in Serbia, the possibility of accompaniment during childbirth was abolished in March 2020, when protective measures were introduced due to the corona virus pandemic.
Three years later, only two maternity hospitals have lifted this ban.
The first maternity hospital that lifted the ban on accompanying people during delivery was KBC "Zvezdara", after a petition "Stop obstetric violence", which was initiated by a woman in labor who suffered obstetric violence at the KBC "Dr. Dragiša Mišović". The petition was signed by more than 90.000 people, and many experts and gynecologists supported it.
A few months later, GAK "Narodni Front" also approved the accompanying during childbirth, and from autumn this option will be introduced by the maternity hospital of the "Zemun" Clinical Hospital Center.
Accompanying a partner, spouse or any close person during childbirth was allowed in private maternity hospitals in Serbia, during the corona virus pandemic, with an additional fee.
In the region and the countries of Western Europe, almost all maternity hospitals allow a husband, partner or other close person to attend the birth.
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