MANILA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) — The Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) said Tuesday that maternal and children deaths spiked during the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said that many mothers failed to access maternal health services due to pandemic restrictions.
“Many mothers opted to give birth at home, so the maternal deaths spiked,” Vergeire to