The year 2022 was atypical for everyone in the context of the war in Ukraine. At the Independent Midwives Association, we have mobilized most of our resources to provide support and safety to people who have taken refuge in our country.
From the beginning of the war (February 24, 2022) until March 2023, more than 120,000 people, mostly women and children, took refuge in Romania (1).
Most of them needed assistance, either urgent medical help, medical services, shelter, food, clothing and basic necessities, or access to maternal and child health services, sexual and reproductive health, Romanian and English language classes, education and recreational activities for children, legal, psychological and social support, along with translation services, registration with the family doctor, or integration activities for adolescents, information and prevention of gender-based violence. From March 2022, we have provided a dedicated call center for people in Ukraine.
During all this time, at the Independent Midwives Association we have provided support in all these areas in over 45,000 cases, mainly for women and children
Call Center: +40 724 772 211
Medical services for refugee women and children
-Gynecological consultations and investigations
-Access to abortion and contraception
-Consultations with doctors and midwives for pregnant women
-Morphofetal ultrasound and prenatal screening
-Lactation consultations and midwife-assisted breastfeeding
-Consultations for new mothers and newborns
-Recommendations for baby care with midwife home visits
-Prenatal and postnatal education for pregnant women and new mothers
-Pediatric consultations
-Facilitating access to vaccination for children
-Facilitating access to family doctors
-Support in case of sexual and gender-based violence
-Legal support for employment
-Legal assistance for housing contracts
-Health literacy for women, adolescents and children
-Reproductive health counselling and information for adolescents
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