Epidemic Flares Up In Homel: Maternity Clinic Freed For COVID-19 Patients

Residents of the city told how the evacuation of women with newborns took place.

New cases of the coronavirus occurred in Homel. The focus of COVID-19 was detected in the hostel of Homel State University. The maternity department of the city hospital #3 has been freed for the coronavirus patients, the “Basta!” Telegram channel reports.

“Homel, the hostel #4 of Skaryna Homel State University. The day before yesterday, two students from the 8th or 9th floor were taken by ambulance. Nothing is known about the diagnosis. Nonresident students are asked not to come to the hostel, but to stay at home,” a reader writes.

“27 women in labor, also those with newborns, were transported by ambulances from the maternity department of the Homel city clinical hospital #3 to the regional hospital in the Lizyukou Brothers Street. Those who could carried the babies themselves. Those after cesarean surgery were helped by midwives,” a subscriber reports.

Several departments of the Homel City Clinical Hospital # 3, including the maternity department, were freed for the infected with COVID-19,” a hospital employee said.