Code of conduct for gynecologists to prevent choosing gender of doctor

The Belgian association prepared a code of conduct that makes it impossible to choose the gender of doctors in emergency services. Immigrants often reject male doctors for pregnant women. A physician at the Brussels Brugmann hospital says that at least one immigrant woman a week cannot give birth in the hospital because there is no female doctor available. The code of conduct, which applies to all Belgian maternity wards, must be signed by anyone who registers in a maternity institute, allowing doctors to check up or help regardless of the doctor’s gender.

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