Managementul cazurilor de COVID-19 la copii în condițiile Republicii Moldova

Ludmila Birca; Gheorghe Placinta; Oleg Lozan

Management of cases of COVID-19 in children in the Republic of Moldova

Authors

Ludmila Birca Municipal Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases for Children https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4399-7528
Gheorghe Placinta Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5964-1572
Oleg Lozan Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1552-1496

Keywords:

COVID-19, children, pandemic, hospital management of children with COVID-19, child deaths from COVID-19

Abstract

From the beginning of the pandemic, it was considered that children represent the least affected population group, but along the way, their involvement in both the epidemiological process and severe clinical evolutions and conditions/ syndromes leading to complications and even deaths were demonstrated. A mixed, quantitative and qualitative study was conducted, the research methods being epidemiological, biostatistical, historical and analytical. Research tool: Epidemiological databases and reports on pediatric COVID-19 cases, Pubmed, MEDLINE, COVerAGE-DB. Target population: hospitalized pediatric cases of COVID-19. The study group included 56,813 pediatric COVID-19 cases. In the Republic of Moldova for 2020-2022 activities, 56,813 cases of COVID-19 in children were registered (9.18% of the total number of detected cases. The number of hospitalized children was increasing during the years 2022-2022 (3312, 4697 and 5341 children, respectively), their share is 40.9%, 25.5% and 19.3% of the number of children confirmed with infection with SARS CoV-2. The fatality rate of COVID-19 in children in the Republic of Moldova was 0.01%, 0.03% and 0.01% for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, respectively, with the highest fatality rate being recorded in newborns. In the Republic of Moldova, the management of children with COVID-19 has met recommendations depending on the epidemiological situation, the number and severity of those affected, but also the hospital’s ability to cope with the flow of children.

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