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North Korea does not joke with adherence to rules, let alone rules concerning COVID-19, so pregnant women diagnosed with this ailment face new challenges they can’t help but adapt to.
Pregnant women in North Korea who tested positive for COVID-19 have been forced to quarantine without any proper treatment in makeshift facilities, leading to a number of stillbirths in the country, RadioFreeAsia reported, citing two anonymous residents.
It is reported that the only medical care quarantined expectant mothers in South Pyongan province received was two painkillers per day and this is the same medication given to all COVID patients in North Korea, the two residents told RFA.
Many pregnant women who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 are placed in warehouses, cooperative farms, factories, or hotels hastily converted into quarantine centers by North Korean Authorities, the US government-funded outlet reported.
A source in the city of Anju told RFA she knew of two stillbirths in a hotel that housed 200 residents, including one case where a doctor helped to deliver the child.
According to the source, authorities haven’t provided further care or treatment to mothers — even if they have high fevers or show signs of postpartum depression.
According to guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine published by the National Institutes of Health, pregnant women with COVID-19 should receive maternal and fetal monitoring and access to a “multispecialty, team-based approach that may include consultation with obstetric, maternal-fetal medicine, infectious disease, pulmonary-critical care, and pediatric specialists, as appropriate.”
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