In Pushcha-Vodytsia
From the last breaths to the first cries: the midwives of the Leleka maternity hospital give life again after having, in the first month of the invasion, saved from death.
The front was then a few kilometers away and the clinic had improvised itself as a military hospital.
But today, except for a few shrapnel marks on the facade, Leleka seems to be back to normal.
Natalia Shemyakina, chief medical officer, says:
“Children born here are healthy.
We do not see the influence of the war on them.
They are still imbued with the hormones of their mothers and are preserved.
Ukrainian women are brave, even under bombs they can give birth!”
Natalia nevertheless depicts an upset sector:
“Many women have left, elsewhere or abroad.
We have 30% fewer births here than before the war.
In addition to motherhood, we are seeing two phenomena: first, an increase in abortions of women who already have children and who are afraid of…
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