Shanghai maternity hospitals set flexible policies during lockdown
Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, which has campuses east and west of the Huangpu River, screened all the registered pregnant women right after the city government on the night of March 27 announced that east regions would be locked down from the following day.
It found more than 3,000 pregnant women who live west of the river and registered with its east campus. They contacted those whose due dates were arriving and that they could go to the hospital's west branch if they encounter any situations.
The hospital also published a 24-hour hotline to answer pregnant women's queries. It received more than 200 phone calls on average daily.
During the lockdown of the regions east of the river from March 28 to 31, an average of over 60 infants were born at the hospital's east campus daily.
