Healthcare officials in Edmonton have opened a new clinic meant for pregnant women who have or may have been exposed to COVID-19.
The clinic at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women opened on March 30. The referral-based clinic is separate from the rest of the hospital, and is for prenatal and postnatal women at 24 gestational weeks or greater who require a prenatal visit while in self-isolation who are: asymptomatic self-isolating, symptomatic COVID-19 suspect, or COVID-19 positive.
Once patients are finished their self-isolation period, they can return to their original healthcare provider. Baker said it’s important that women still be able to get obstetrical care in the later stages of pregnancy. “Later on in the pregnancy, for many reasons,