A video spread on social networks in which an Uzbek man was claiming that his child was born dead due to the fact that his wife did not receive proper medical care.
The information service of the regional health department responded to this situation. It turned out that the woman in the video was H.Z born in 2004, living in the Kashkadarya region of Uzbekistan.
"The woman registered for pregnancy on December 20, 2022 at the hospital No. 9. Mandatory clinical and laboratory tests that women took have shown that, according to the general blood count, hemoglobin is 88 g/l, anemia of moderate severity, chronic pyelonephritis. The woman was treated for these diseases at home. The woman herself refused to undergo pregnancy screening," the ministry said in a statement.
It is noted that on June 7, 2023, at 07:30, the pregnant woman turned to the maternity ward, where she was examined by the obstetrician-gynecologist Inobat Shomalieva.
"The woman was hospitalized with a diagnosis of chronic pyelonephritis. Clinical laboratory studies were conducted. According to the conclusion of Ultrasound imaging: pregnancy-39 weeks, premature decentralization of the fetal placenta and fetal death in the womb, retroplacental hematoma was diagnosed. reading the situation, a pregnant woman was taken to the regional perinatal center on June 7 at 16:10 under the supervision of a doctor Inobat Shomalieva in an ambulance at the request of relatives,” - statement reads.
In this regard, in the regional perinatal center, the patient underwent an immediate cesarean section and the dead baby was removed.
"After the surgery, medical procedures continue. The patient and her relatives can contact law enforcement agencies if they are dissatisfied with the actions of doctors,” - the Information Service of the Department of Health of Kashkadarya region reports.
Child mortality remains a significant issue in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, posing a critical challenge in the present day.
Uzbekistan
According to the State Committee on Statistics and the UN Children's Fund, the Multi-indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) conducted in Uzbekistan in 2021-2022 revealed that the infant mortality rate for the five years preceding the survey was 22, and the mortality rate in the first month of life was 17 per 1,000 live births.
Among children who died before the age of 5, 88% died before the age of 1, and among children who died before the age of 1, 77% died within the first month of life.
Kyrgyzstan
According to the National Center for Maternal and Child Health, 2,151 children under the age of one died in Kyrgyzstan in 2022.
The leading causes of death were diseases and conditions that occur in the perinatal period (57.6% last year), followed by congenital anomalies (16.7%) and respiratory diseases (10.3%).
The maternal mortality rate was 44.71 per 100,000 live births.
These numbers were influenced by the coronavirus pandemic, as hospitals were repurposed as "covid" medical facilities, preventing timely care for patients with other diseases.
Kazakhstan
According to the national health plan of Kazakhstan, the infant mortality rate in the country increased by 12% to 1.7 thousand people in just six months (January–June 2021).
The most common cause of infant mortality was conditions that occur in the perinatal period, resulting in the deaths of 932 children.
Additionally, 335 infants died from congenital anomalies, and another 72 died from infectious and parasitic diseases.
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