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Almost 60% of Romanian teen girls fail to monitor their pregnancy or go to the doctor only in the last trimester, head of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Clinic at the Bucharest University Emergency Hospital (SUUB) Monica Cirstoiu said on Monday, April 7, World Health Day. This year's World Health Organisation's campaign, called "Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures," focuses on maternal and newborn health. "Being an emergency hospital, with multidisciplinary teams, we have an extremely high number of high-risk pregnancies.
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) We have patients who have severe anaemias, with haematological diseases, with lymphedemas, cancer; we have patients with kidney transplants or liver transplants who, thanks to our teams, bring healthy children into the world and patients who have had a heart attack or heart malformations. Patients with severe neurological diseases, stroke pathology, cases of polytrauma, from road accidents are also brought to our hospital, because having this ability to work in multidisciplinary teams, involving cardiology, haematology, cardiovascular surgery, internal medicine, nephrology, gastroenterology, general surgery, we give a chance at life to the mother and the baby," SUUB reported on Monday in a press release. According to SUUB, in 2024, 45 preteens gave birth at the Bucharest University Emergency Hospital.
"We are talking about children who bring children into the world, infantile organisms that are not ready to carry a pregnancy to term, severe complications appear, both maternal and neonatal. (..
.) Almost 60% of adolescents do not monitor their pregnancy or end up monitoring their pregnancy only in the last trimester," added doctor Cirstoiu. At the Bucharest University Emergency Hospital in 2024, out of a total of 2,710 pregnant patients, 1,157 had complications.
"The preterm birth rate in our hospital is over 15% (as against 9% nationwide), and the number of transfers from other public or private maternity hospitals, in Bucharest or neighbouring counties, has increased by about 30% in recent years," according to Adriana Dan, head of the Neonatology Department. On this year's World Health Day, WHO representative in Romania and the Head of the Country Office, Caroline Clarinval, together with the Health Operations Manager, Dr. Silvia Gatscher, visited the Obstetrics-Gynaecology and Neonatology Departments of SUUB.
Clarinval stressed the importance of prenatal and postnatal care for the prevention and reduction of risks or complications during pregnancy, respectively for maternal and newborn health..
