The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Maternal and Child Health Services in Rwanda

O Tengera, JP Ndayisenga, D Mukamana… - Research Journal of …, 2020 - ajol.info
O Tengera, JP Ndayisenga, D Mukamana, A Muhayimana, J Murekezi, M Mukamusangwa…
Research Journal of Health Sciences, 2020ajol.info
Since March 14th, 2020 the first case of the COVID-from one province to another, or had
been in contact 19 was identified in Rwanda. Like other countries, with those infected, were
supposed to be in preventive measures were introduced by the quarantine for 14 days (2).
government of Rwanda (GoR) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ministry
of Local The GoR through the MoH facilitated health Government, the Ministry of Internal
Security, the care providers to continue serving the population Ministry of Defense, and all …
Since March 14th, 2020 the first case of the COVID-from one province to another, or had been in contact 19 was identified in Rwanda. Like other countries, with those infected, were supposed to be in preventive measures were introduced by the quarantine for 14 days (2). government of Rwanda (GoR) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ministry of Local The GoR through the MoH facilitated health Government, the Ministry of Internal Security, the care providers to continue serving the population Ministry of Defense, and all stakeholders. within their provincial, district hospitals, and health Interestingly, all policy and decision-makers were centers. However, access to those essential services involved in the implementation of COVID-19 was a big challenge towards the Rwandan preventive measures including hand hygiene, stay population. Therefore, it is imperative to say that the home, physical and social distancing. Only essential COVID-19 affected directly and indirectly the services were opened. Both private and public maternal and child health care services. Hence, transportation were closed except those which were women seeking maternity care-related services were at the frontline-related services (1). faced with significant challenges by limited transport options to health care services. Only private cars were
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