{"id":3143,"date":"2021-07-09T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:16","slug":"expectant-mothers-in-buliisa-shun-health-facilities-as-covid-19-cases-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/07\/09\/expectant-mothers-in-buliisa-shun-health-facilities-as-covid-19-cases-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Expectant Mothers in Buliisa Shun Health Facilities as Covid-19 Cases Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Leilah Bbaale<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3144 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Pregnant-woman--300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Pregnant-woman--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Pregnant-woman--768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Pregnant-woman--720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Pregnant-woman--600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Pregnant-woman-.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As hospitals and health centres around the country transformed into coronavirus battle stations where\u00a0overwhelmed medical teams with limited supplies fight a new,\u00a0incurable disease, more expectant mothers are deciding it&#8217;s safer to give birth at home.<\/p>\n<p>In Buliisa district, the number of expectant mothers seeking antenatal services at Biiso health center IV in Buliisa district has significantly reduced after a five health workers tested positive for Covid-19<\/p>\n<p>Emmalin Natasha, the in-charge of the maternity ward at the facility explains that following the second wave of covid-19 pandemic in the country, the number of expectant mothers seeking antenatal services has reduced due to the fear of contracting COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>According to Emmalin, out of 70 mothers who used to seek antenatal services at the facility in a month, only 5 mothers attend while the majority now seek services from Traditional Birth Attendants in their respective villages.<\/p>\n<p>However, she calls upon the mothers to embrace the services normally from the facility to avoid health complications that may arise while giving birth from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale As hospitals and health centres around the country transformed into coronavirus battle stations where\u00a0overwhelmed medical teams with limited supplies fight a new,\u00a0incurable disease, more expectant mothers are deciding it&#8217;s safer to give birth at home. In Buliisa district, the number of expectant mothers seeking antenatal services at Biiso health center IV in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}