High infant mortality alerts Macedonia institutions

Macedonia's Health Ministry has warned a series of measures aimed at reducing the number of deaths of newborn babies. Among the measures undertaken are specialization of the doctor's framework, increasing the number of mother gynecologists, raising the quality of services in maternity services, and so on.

These measures warned by the Health Dikaster follow alarming data as regards the number of newborn infant mortality in Macedonia. According to the State Statistics Ent, the mortality rate in newborn babies is 11.9 percent, which is twice that high in the European countries of 5.2.

Health Minister Venko Filipce, in an interview for Radio Free Europe, says the dictatorship leading the country has already drafted a clear plan in this direction:

We have a plan on how to influence the level of the Gynecological Clinic in the sense of a contemporary device device, the process of providing babies has already begun. Previously, two babies were placed in a single incubator. Now 16 new incubators have been provided.

We have a plan that will enable doctors to professionalise on this issue, so experts from abroad will come, respectively, from the World Medical Organization. We will also work towards increased staff at the Gynecology Clinic, as well as the overall number of gynecology doctors in all municipalities in Macedonia”, says Minister Filipce.

Meanwhile, despite reactions on social networks following his opinion that high mortality among newborn babies is and due to lack of health culture and regular non-control of pregnant gynecologist Filipce says this is the reality and no offense.

I have to point out that even in my statement on media, I have been intent on offending someone, but there are a considerable number of women who have first control in gynecology and have the day they come to maternity ward to give birth to”, Filipce claims.

According to a research conducted by BIRN, long ago in 45 municipalities of a total 80 such as Macedonia, there is a lack of amma gynecologist, meanwhile, in another 25 municipalities there is insufficient framework.

But with this data, Macedonia's health minister disagrees, under which only 5 municipalities in Macedonia lack mother gynecologists.

Organizations that focus on women's rights say rural women face many difficulties in making regular visits to gynecologists as a result of a lack of gynecologists in these areas.

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Meanwhile, the chairman of the Association of Gynecologists in Macedonia, Dusko Filipovski, says the lack of mother gynecologists is felt in many municipalities, unlike the number declared by the Ministry of Health. Despite this, Filipovski stresses that in European countries this issue is regulated by what a large number of gynaecological checks do, and the amma or acerist doctors, such as pap-test or simpler controls.

If we target the criteria that apply to European countries, then deep health reforms should be developed, starting with investing education and rehabilitation of medical staff and acussion”.

“in Macedonia lacks specialised medical staff, especially the middle school staff, so we don't have specialised frameworks for the corresponding issue. Not all patients have problems, they're for gynecologist. Simple infections can solve doctors just as it is the practice of European countries, but before that the amma doctors have to specialise in this direction“, explains Filipovski.

Separately the problem presents and the fact that, as a result of inadequate non-deserved conditions, in most cases the clinics of many cities from Macedonia send their birth patients to Skopje. This has caused the projected number of clinic capacity in Skopje of about 3,000 births per year to double, causing more problems in managing the centre's maternity capacity. (REL)