The maternity department of Saint Pierre Hospital is a tertiary care centre that performs about 4,300 deliveries per year, thus representing about 85% of deliveries in the Southern area of Reunion Island, and it is the only level-3 maternity (the other maternity is a private clinic). Reunion Island is a French overseas region in the Southern Indian Ocean. The entire pregnant population has access to maternity care free of charge as provided by the French healthcare system, which combines freedom of medical practice with nationwide social security. The prenatal system is based on scheduled appointments (9 prenatal visits and on average 4 ultrasounds) starting from 6 to 8 (see below) weeks of gestation.
Author(s) Details:
Pierre-Yves Robillard,
Service de Néonatologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sud Réunion, Saint-Pierre Cedex, La Réunion, France and Centre d’Etudes Périnatales Océan Indien (CEPOI), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sud Réunion, Saint-Pierre Cedex, La Réunion, France.
Gustaaf Dekker,
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Adelaide, Robinson Institute, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Australia.
Malik Boukerrou,
Centre d’Etudes Périnatales Océan Indien (CEPOI), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sud Réunion, Saint-Pierre Cedex, La Réunion, France and Service de Gynécologie et Obstétrique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sud Réunion, BP 350, 97448 Saint-Pierre Cedex, La Réunion, France.
Brahim Boumahni,
Service de Neonatologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sud Reunion, Saint-Pierre Cedex, La Reunion, France.
Thomas C Hulsey,
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown WV, USA.
Marco Scioscia,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Policlinico of Abano Terme, Abano Terme (PD), Italy.