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A study published in the scientific journal The Lancet warns of the lack of food and medical resources linked to the Coronavirus crisis in poor countries. According to the researchers, this could lead to an increase in infant and maternal mortality.
The coronavirus is a global plague. If the disease has already claimed hundreds of thousands of victims, the consequences linked to the health and economic crisis engendered would be just as devastating. According to a study by John Hopkins University in the United States, and published in the scientific journal The Lancet, 250,000 infants and young children, as well as 10,000 mothers, could indeed indirectly die from Covid within six months come.
The epidemic has caused a lack of food and medical equipment in poor or low-income countries (Madagascar, Guinea, Haiti, etc.). Researchers have noted a sharp increase in childbirth, due to the lack of care and medication (such as antibiotics) and safe life-giving environments (hospitals are overcrowded). Children are also more likely to die from malnutrition and lack of treatment for pneumonia, sepsis and diarrhea (dehydration).
According to the worst-case scenario envisaged by scientists, nearly 1.2 million children and around 57,000 mothers could die in these 118 countries.
“If they do not have access to usual health care and access to food is reduced (due to inevitable shocks, the collapse of the health system or deliberate choices in responding to the pandemic) , the increase in infant and maternal mortality will be devastating ", say the researchers. Before concluding : "We hope these figures will prompt policy makers to establish guidelines and find medical and food resources in the days and months to come. "
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