Fetal therapy in the Dominican Republic: perinatal view

Abstract

Some 10% of pregnancies will qualify as high obstetric risk and will present some
maternal or fetal complication. In the Dominican Republic, with a birth rate of 166,938
in the year 2022, many of these births merit the participation of a maternal-fetal
medicine team. The need to form a physical and human fetal therapy unit is becoming
more visible every day in all countries in the world. The Dominican Republic has not
been the exception, having managed to form the Dominican fetal medicine team,
with a multidisciplinary perinatal vision of integration of maternal fetal medicine
and pediatric subspecialties in a single team. Considering the economic rates of our
Latin American countries, excluding a country from this service forces the patient
to search international treatment, representing a limitation for a very vulnerable
population. Thanks to the Dominican medical commitment and its public and private
authorities, today Dominican fetal surgery is advancing under the banner ‘Health for
our people, from our people’.