Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on obstetrical care at a tertiary care facility in Mombasa, Kenya: Time-series analyses and staff perspectives.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic caused disruption in healthcare delivery due to reductions in both health facility capacity and care-seeking behavior. For women experiencing obstetric complications, access to comprehensive emergency obstetric care is critical for maternal and child health. In Kenya, pandemic-related restrictions began in March 2020 and were compounded by a healthcare worker strike in December 2020. We examined medical record data at Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital, a large public hospital, and conducted staff interviews to understand how healthcare disruptions impacted care delivery and perinatal outcomes. Routinely collected data from all mother-baby dyads admitted to the Labor and Delivery Ward from January 2019 through March 2021 were included in interrupted time-ser

SUBMITTER: Long JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10115298 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature