healthmedicinet

24 Feb 2013
Last updated during 20:15 ET

The organisation says a routine change means women are not changed within 4 weeks of their due date

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) is endangering a health of some profound women seeking haven and their babies by relocating them, a news has said.

The news by Maternity Action and a Refugee Council found examples of women changed opposite medical recommendation and too tighten to their due date.

Twenty women and 17 midwives concerned in their caring were interviewed.

A UKBA orator pronounced a conclusions were drawn from a tiny sample, and abandoned new routine changes.

The investigate also found examples of:

• Women being changed to new accommodation mixed times
• Women being distant from a father of their baby
• Women giving birth but a birth partner following a move

The news also points out that asylum-seeking women mostly have high-risk pregnancies, due to critical earthy health conditions that can be associated to carrying fled torture, passionate assault or womanlike genital twisting in their possess countries.

Many humour from critical mental health conditions, including critical depression, flashbacks and suicidal thoughts, a news added.

But UKBA relocations were separating women from dilettante diagnosis and monitoring, it said, discordant to National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence guidance.

“It is high time a UKBA recognized asylum-seeking women as being a quite exposed organisation with formidable needs, and urgently safeguard their policies simulate this,” pronounced Maternity Action executive Rosalind Bragg.

“Our multitude is unwell these women and their babies,” pronounced Cathy Warwick, ubiquitous secretary of a Royal College of Midwives.

Ms Warwick added: “If these women or their babies are not to humour critical consequences we contingency offer them a possibility of smoothness of caring via pregnancy and birth from a group who know their needs.”

‘Resources wasted’

There were also examples of NHS resources being squandered when scans and tests were steady following a relocation, a news said.

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Shan Nicholas, halt arch executive during a Refugee Council, said: “We work with profound women each day who have been ripped divided from their families and healthcare, causing undue trouble and health problems during what should be an sparkling and certain time of their lives.

“The UKBA contingency stop promulgation profound women to live in new cities unless all risks have been deliberate and adequate medical arrangements have been made.”

The Refugee Council and Maternity Action are job on a supervision to urgently examination a policies to safeguard a haven complement no longer puts women and their babies during risk.

A UKBA orator said: “We cruise each box away and, wherever possible, women in a latter stages of pregnancy will not be changed to a opposite area.

“Last year we introduced a revised pregnancy dispersion routine that includes a joining to not pierce any profound lady during a 4 weeks before or after her due date.”

He pronounced that asylum-seekers were usually changed when it was “safe and unsentimental to do so”, adding: “Those with critical or formidable medical needs have their clinicians told via a process.”