[Prohibited visiting in the maternity hospital and its epidemiological consequences]

Advancement of the obstetric ward in Bulgaria is connected with the organization, forbidding a free contact of parturients with their relatives. The authors carry out an inquiry study, showing that the administrative ban of visits in the obstetric ward is violated a hundred percentage. Concrete data are indicated to show when, with whom, for how much time the parturients are visited. The opinion of the parturients is accepted that it is necessary to fix daily time for their visits with members of their families, and it is recommended that the problem should find contemporary administrative solution.