12 Unvaccinated Pregnant Patients Died in Ankara

In the early days when vaccines were introduced, doctors recommended avoiding the vaccine because they did not know whether the vaccine was harmful to pregnant women. There were claims that COVID-19 vaccines caused abortion in pregnant women and killed the mother. However, in the next processes, together with the safety data obtained, the vaccine is given to pregnant women, children and mothers. does not harmOn the contrary, it was stated that COVID-19 poses a greater risk.

Ankara Provincial Health Director Zülfikar Akelma, in 2021 due to COVID-19 12 pregnant women died He said, “These are the situations that hurt us. These mothers, young mothers. All of them are unvaccinated groups. Pregnant women should definitely be vaccinated. Vaccination of pregnant women does not harm their baby.”

“Pregnant citizens who lost their lives were unvaccinated”

Ankara’s vaccination Above Turkey’s average Akelma said that vaccination activities are carried out intensively in places such as hospitals and family health centers, organized industrial zones, squares where citizens are concentrated, Esenboğa Airport, AŞTİ and High Speed ​​​​Train Station.

Stating that all pregnant citizens who lost their lives due to COVID-19 were unvaccinated, Akelma said, “In 2021, 12 pregnant women in Ankara, that is, those who were pregnant or within 42 days of birth, died due to COVID-19 infection. All 12 people who were pregnant and died due to Covid-19 from the unvaccinated formed,” he said.

“The vaccine is not harmful to the baby”

Assoc. Dr. Ahmet Zülfikar Akelma stated that they do not want to face a serious picture and said, “All pregnant women should be vaccinated. There is no obstacle in front of the vaccination of pregnant women. We have enough scientific data there is. Let them end their hesitations about the vaccine as soon as possible and make a decision. We are waiting for them to be vaccinated,” he said.

Responding to the fact that mothers did not get vaccinated with the fear that “it may harm the baby”, Akelma said, “It is necessary for pregnant women to be vaccinated. to your baby there is no harm. On the contrary, in pregnant women, the antibodies that emerge when they are vaccinated may even be protective for the baby by passing through the placenta in some of them. So it will be useful.”

‘The number of young people in intensive care has started to increase’

Reminding the importance of precautions and getting vaccinated, Akelma said, “Nearly 90 percent of patients hospitalized in intensive care units and services are groups that are somehow incompletely vaccinated. weight of the young Akelma also talked about the occupancy rate of hospitals in Ankara due to COVID-19, stating that the general occupancy rate of hospital services is 55 percent, “Our Kovid-19 services are not stable. We reduce or increase them as needed. Currently, the occupancy rate is 60 percent there. In general, our occupancy rate in our intensive care units is 70 percent. We look at the need while allocating our intensive care units to COVID-19.”