Posted: Jul 07, 2021 8:23 PM PT | Last Updated: July 8
The two-week diversion at Peace Arch Hospital is due to a gap in pediatric coverage.(Serhii Bobyk/Shutterstock)
A two-week diversion of maternity patients from White Rock s Peace Arch Hospital because of a shortage in pediatric care has many calling for action.
Earlier this week, Fraser Health announced it would be diverting expecting patients who required labour and delivery support to other hospitals from July 8 to July 19, leaving many labouring moms scrambling to find a backup plan.
Dr. Michael Smith, a pediatrician in Fraser Health and the regional medical director for the Maternal Infant and Child Youth Program, told CBC the diversion was the result of a gap in the number of pediatricians available to provide maternity coverage.
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With threat of severe food insecurity, WHO supports worst cases of malnutrition in children in Pibor Administrative Area of South Sudan
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Juba - A visibly anxious and exhausted 25-year-old Kanyet Modi from Gumuruk payam a few kilometres from Pibor, walks into Pibor primary health care center stabilization centre in the morning hours. He appears to be losing hope holding her seven-month son Nyaprilem Baal who has fever, diarrhea and vomiting. Nyaprilem is malnourished.
Urgent provision of care was the fine line between life and potential death after he was screened and found to have severe acute malnutrition with medical complication at the outpatient therapeutic programme.