Doha: Hamad Medical Corporations (HMC)'s Women’s Wellness and Research Center (WWRC) has launched online educational courses on pregnancy and childbirth, as part of efforts to continue prenatal education services while maintaining measures taken to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 in Qatar, the most important of which is social distancing.
This initiative has been created by the patient education team and their family members at the center, where educational lectures presented in both Arabic and English are shared. Groups of 10 to 15 participants of pregnant women who share the same conditions of pregnancy. It featured lectures for this category of women including topics in areas of prenatal, childbirth and postpartum, including care for newborns, the program also includes an educational session that is presented to mothers after two weeks of birth and focuses on the postpartum period and provides support to new mothers.
Dr. Hilal Al-Rifai, Medical Director WWRC, said that although some measures had been taken to move patients away from medical facilities, such as a program of virtual educational courses on pregnancy and childbirth, some services could only be provided through the actual presence of patients in the hospital, stressing that the center takes all precautions and preventive measures to protect from exposure to the COVID-19 infection.
He said WWRC receives more than 300 new births per week. Specialised teams provide health care services to hundreds of women in the center’s internal clinics.
