Are pregnant women eligible for Covid-19 jab?

Lilian Nuwabaine Luyima is a trained nurse, midwife and women’s health specialist and continuous professional development coordinator at the Aga Khan University in Kenya. She writes that available health evidence indicates that pregnant women are more likely to suffer severe forms of Covid-19 if they contract the virus. It is also medically known that some medications like vaccines may not be recommended among this group of people. She says that nurses and midwives have been the champions of all vaccination campaigns in Uganda and have won the public trust on that. Therefore, the information they disseminate to the public plays a big role. Luyima goes on to say that there is a need for urgent intervention by the Ministry of Health to clarify and guide the vaccination teams and the general public on the facts and myths of the Covid-19 vaccine.