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Asturian hospitals will allow the presence of a companion in labor during the pandemic | BE Gijón | Today for Today Gijón

The Health Service of the Principality (SESPA) will allow the presence of a companion in all phases of Birth, as long as the safety measures for the patient, the person accompanying her and the health personnel are complied with. The measure will be on going in all sanitary areas over week.

The accompanying person must carry at all times surgical mask and comply with the general respiratory hygiene measures or, where appropriate, carry the Individual protection equipment (EPI) indicated in the usual procedures of the corresponding hospital.

SESPA adopts this decision to facilitate accompaniment, provided that each hospital has the means and structure to do so, and taking into account the indications of the Spanish Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics and the Ministry of Health. In this way, the normalization of the Humanization Plan facing the period of de-escalated. At the time of hospital admission, it will be applied to all pregnant the epidemiological information triage provided for in the aforementioned plan. This procedure includes taking the temperature and clinical respiratory assessment in the previous 14 days.

Furthermore, each center will value the realization of a test PCR to all pregnant women requiring hospital admission. In the event that the pregnant of positive in coronaviruses, the circuits defined in the hospital itself will be maintained. In addition, you must bring surgical mask covering nose and mouth during Birth. For their part, professionals they must be provided with Individual Protection Equipment.


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