A study by Fiocruz’s Covid-19 Observatory points out that pregnant and puerperal women were more penalized by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 than the general population. The research, released this Thursday (19/1) and published in the scientific journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, highlights that there was an excess of maternal deaths of 40% in the first year of the pandemic, when compared to previous years.
In the period, 549 mothers died from Covid-19, mainly pregnant women in the second and third quarters. “Even considering the expectation of an increase in deaths in general due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there was still an excess of 14%”, says, in a note, Fiocruz.
The survey shows that black women, who live in rural areas and were hospitalized outside the municipality where they live, were the ones who died the most, which highlights the differences in health care.
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The chances of hospitalization of pregnant women diagnosed with the disease were 337% higher, while the risk of hospitalization in the ICU was 73% higher and the chances of using invasive ventilatory support, 64% higher than in patients in general.
“The service network seems to have been more protective of pregnant and postpartum women, ensuring more immediate admissions and directing them to intensive and invasive therapy. However, the delay in starting vaccination among pregnant and puerperal women may have been decisive in the greater penalization of these women”, analyzes researcher Raphael Guimarães.
He considers that the excess of deaths happened, in large part, directly by Covid-19, but the pandemic also inflated the number of deaths of women by making access to prenatal care and adequate conditions for childbirth even more difficult.
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