The first congress of obstetricians-gynecologists of the RSFSR

The state and tasks of medical and sanitary services for women and the role of antenatal clinics in reducing obstetric and gynecological pathology were highlighted in the program report of the deputy. Minister of Health of the RSFSR N. N. Grigorieva. Subsequent reports on this issue dealt with the ways and prospects of preventive obstetric and gynecological care, the organization of work at the obstetric-gynecological section of the antenatal clinic, the role of the antenatal clinic in the organization of preventive examinations, in the prevention of gynecological diseases, late toxicosis of pregnancy, subsequent and postpartum hemorrhages. Wishes were expressed about the introduction of the principle of clinical examination in the work of antenatal clinics, in connection with which it was proposed to transform women's clinics into "obstetric and gynecological dispensaries" and put them at the head of all joint obstetric and gynecological institutions in the region. The usefulness of servicing the site of each antenatal clinic by a medical team assigned to it, including a district therapist (team leader), obstetrician-gynecologist, pediatrician, SES worker, phthisiatrician, was noted.