INTERVIEW ABOUT MATERNAL MORTALITY, COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND POST-PANDEMIC FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PERNAMBUCO STATE MATERNAL MORTALITY COMMITTEE – CEEMM-PE
Abstract
I always have doubts when talking about the Covid-19 pandemic and its devastating effects. From where to start? What feeling animates the conversation? There were and continue to be many images, listening, experiences, losses, welcomed, histories and neglect. Speak in the first or third person? This certainly helps to define how far I distance myself and how close I get to the events.
Memories arise of what it was like to deal with another unknown infectious disease, with the sadness in predicting who would become more infected, who would have their illness more aggravated, who would die more. It rekindles the anguish of what it was like to live with an (elected) government without empathy and what it was capable of doing to a population exhausted from so much headbanging to wake up the next day, often believing only in a messiah, as politics was seen as a constant exercise of far away so close. Recall that pure ignorance, devoid of ethics and compassion, that propagated neglect, assumed denialism as public policy and naturalized the suffering of others as if it were Destiny.
At the same time, the need to talk about the resilience of health professionals, the resistance of researchers in confronting government lies and omissions, the energy of organized people, the articulation of non-flat earth governors and politicians, the Covid-19 CPI and the role of the media, including traditional ones, in monitoring and monitoring morbidity and mortality data. Part of these reaction strategies is close to what Simone Diniz called Guerrilla Epidemiology: the role of organized groups in visualizing the problems caused by Covid-19 during pregnancy in Brazil, presented at the Seminar “Far beyond the virus: effects of Covid-19 on sexual and reproductive health in Brazil2, in february 2023. From the perspective of guerrilla epidemiology, I highlight the contribution of the Obstetric Observatory for the field of maternal health and mortality and Covid-19.
So, it is with the feeling of fear and hope that has flooded our lives that I will continue talking.
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