[Reminiscence on the municipal out-of-hospital maternity unit and the motherhood home in Novi Sad].
2013
Introduction. In the mid-twentieth century, the health care of women and
children was inadequate in the post-war Yugoslavia, including the city of
Novi Sad, due to the severe post-war reality: poverty in the devastated
country, shortage of all commodities and services and especially of medical
supplies, equipment and educated staff. Out-of-Hospital Maternity Unit. One
of the serious problems was parturition at home and morbidity and mortality
of the newborns and women. Soon after the World War II the action programme
of improving the women’s health was realized on the state level by
establishing out-of-hospital maternity units but under the expert
supervision. The Maternity unit at 30 Ljudevita Gaja Street in Novi Sad
played a great role in providing skilled birth attendance at mainly normal
deliveries. With a minimal number of medical staff and modest medical
equipment, about 2000 healthy babies were born in this house. Motherhood
Home. After 5 years of functioning in that way, this unit was transformed
into the Motherhood Home and became a social and medical institution for
pregnant women and new mothers. Regardless of the redefined organization
concept the curative and preventive health care as well as women and children
social protection programmes were provided successfully for the next 12
years. Although the Motherhood Home was moved into the Women Health Centre of
Novi Sad and later into the former Maternity Hospital in Sremski Karlovci,
its great importance for women and children’s health care remained unchanged.
In 1979 the overall social situation and mostly economic issues led to its
closing. Epilogue. The house in Gajeva Street is now used as the municipality
office. However, this house with its story recommends itself to become a
house for a special social function, such as a museum of medical history of
Novi Sad. A small investment could make it possible to collect, preserve and
display the valuable records of our past, which is something we do owe to the
generations to come.
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