The genes road: impact of migration on newborn screening and health amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean region

Nearly two-thirds of migrants residing in camps in Europe are women and children. Many of these children, being born on the way without essential newborns screening, are at some point admitted to pediatric wards in asylum countries. With hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, taking appropriate...

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Autores principales: Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde, Tsagkaris, Christos, Oyeyemi, Ajagbe Abayomi, Akanji, Onigbinde Oluwanisola, Essar, Mohammad Yasir, Ahmad, Shoaib, Khawaja, Uzzam Ahmed, Cruz-Martins, Natália, Batiha, Gaber El-Saber
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8352145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34374008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15848-5
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Sumario:Nearly two-thirds of migrants residing in camps in Europe are women and children. Many of these children, being born on the way without essential newborns screening, are at some point admitted to pediatric wards in asylum countries. With hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, taking appropriate care of newborns becomes a considerable burden. In this frame, prevention, in the form of adequate newborn screening, emerges as a better and more feasible strategy than healing.

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