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Health News for Saturday, January 2, 2021
Source: GNA
2021-01-02
Stock Photo: Women think that cesarean section (CS) is the safest and easiest
More women, who deliver at Bono Regional Hospital in Sunyani, prefer cesarean section (CS) to normal deliveries, said Ms Susan Tiwaa, the midwife in charge of maternity at the regional hospital.
He said that women believed that cesarean section was the safest and easiest way to deliver their babies.
He said that of the nine babies that were born on December 31, 2020 at the facility, six of them were made through CS.
The babies are five girls and four boys with body weights ranging between 1.9 and 3.5 kilograms.
However, Ms Tiwaa told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the five babies who were born at the facility on January 1, 2020 had normal deliveries.
They were made up of three girls and two boys.
Ms. Evelyn Ama Kumi-Richardson, Regional Minister of Bono, previously visited and donated Christmas packages, which included cooking oil, spices, rice and non-alcoholic beverages and cakes to patients upon admission to the hospital.
He also donated items to patients at SDA Hospital, Dr. Akyereko Memorial Hospital, Sunyani Municipal Hospital ‘A&A’ Hospital, and Sunyani Technical University Clinic.
Ms. Kumi-Richardson explained that the packages were to put smiles on patients’ faces and also to facilitate their healing process.
Ms Jovial Nyarko-Ababio, Supervisor of the Prenatal Clinic at Bono Regional Hospital, said the facility recorded three cases of maternal deaths in 2020 compared to 18 cases the previous year.
He cited hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, sepsis, anemia and eclampsia as some of the leading causes of maternal deaths and called for more BP monitors and devices to help prevent maternal deaths.
At SDA Hospital, Ms Vera Agyeiwaa, the midwife in charge told GNA that two children were born at the facility between December 31, 2020 and January 1, 2021.
But, Ms Christiana Adu-Twumwaa, the midwife in charge of Sunyani Municipal Hospital, said that a child was born at the facility on January 1, 2021.
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