GENETIC CONSULTATION AS AN ELEMENT OF MATERNITY AND CHILDHOOD PROTECTION SYSTEM IN PRIMORYE

Abstract

Maternity and childhood protection is nowadays one of the priority directions in the development of the public health system. Genetic consultation is one of the units being a part of the maternity and childhood protection system whose development is defined as a priority line in most countries of the world. The authors analyze the activities of the genetic consultation in Primorye and point out the increasing number of families coming to consult a geneticist over the last five years. This situation may be explained by two reasons: doctors and population's awareness of genetic consultation activities and its accessibility. The authors also emphasize the increasing number of pregnant women seeking genetic care including invasive prenatal diagnostics (placentocentesis, chorion biopsy, chordocentesis, and amniocentesis) that is the second level of the examination. On the whole, by authors' estimate, Primorsky genetic consultation is available, all-inclusive, very promising unit in the maternity and childhood protection system which can render aid required by patients in most visits to the doctors.