Seven out of every 10 pregnant women at Suva’s CWM Hospital are testing positive for COVID-19.
This, according to the head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the CWM Hospital Kelera Sakumeni.
“The current situation right now we are seeing about seven out of ten women that are being diagnosed with COVID getting admitted to the hospital, I feel that this is a small number and there is a much bigger number out there,” she said during the Fiji National University panel discussion
yesterday.
“Because the women that are getting diagnosed are the ones that are coming into maternity, they’re coming in for admission and they’re getting swapped on arrival, according to our protocols, so once they come in, they’re being diagnosed.
“So there is a bigger number out there, but the ones that we have reported so far I can safely say is about 600 and is counting and more.”
She said there was an exponential rise in cases in July.
