A 58 year old Magdalene Juliet Acquah Pricipal midwife at the Cape Coast Metropolitan Hospital has designed two types of delivery facilities here in Ghana to help save delivery and reduce child mortality. She says her invention made from a wood is in a form of a chair with supporting arms which will provide a support base for the women in labour.
When asked the rationale behind this new idea, she said this was influenced by her own observation she made while working as a mid-wife. She noted that for pregnant women to have safe delivery, they need to be given much attention and provide for them every necessary thing they need to have them deliver safely, hence most pregnant women prefer to squat or stand whiles in labour instead of making them lay in bed. Adding that many women have lost their lives and babies due to inconveniences they face when restricted to the bed.
Magdalene Acquah believes this piece of altenative will offer option for the woman in labour to choose from standing, squatting and laying down for safe delivery.
Dr Patrick Aboagye is the Deputy Director, Family Heads Division-Ghana Health Service confirmed in a telephone interview that the Invention has received the approval of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) following a medical checks on the viability and efficiency of the delivery chair designed by Midwife Magdelen Juliet Acquah and manufactured by carpenters.
Ghana, like other developing countries has a high maternal mortality rate. The Ghana Maternal Health Survey, 2007 indicates that maternal mortality ratio in Ghana remains unacceptably high at 451 deaths per 100,000 live births.
In addition, statistics from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) also indicate that 953 women died in 2008 from pregnancy and delivery complications in our health facilities. This figure, according to the GHS, did not include those women who died silently in communities and were quietly buried without registration.
Friday, June 10, 2011
‘CASES OF MALARIA WORRYING’-A.M.A
The Accra metropolitan Assembly (A.M.A) says it is worried about the increasing number of cholera cases being recorded in the nation’s capital.
Speaking to in an interview, the Public Relations Officer of the A.M.A ,Numoo Blafo II lamented that though his secretariat is doing all it can to control the situation some unscrupulous people in the metropolis have taken to the habit of soiling the environment especially at market centers and water bodies.
He mentioned that the cholera pandemic could be minimized if people exhibit proper way maintaining both personal and environmental cleanliness.
Numoo Blafo II also advised the general public to practice the act of buying food at clean areas and wash hands with soap and water after coming in contact with a cholera patient.
He said the AMA has attached much seriousness to the matter thus setting up a sensitization project to educate the public on the cholera pandemic.
Speaking to in an interview, the Public Relations Officer of the A.M.A ,Numoo Blafo II lamented that though his secretariat is doing all it can to control the situation some unscrupulous people in the metropolis have taken to the habit of soiling the environment especially at market centers and water bodies.
He mentioned that the cholera pandemic could be minimized if people exhibit proper way maintaining both personal and environmental cleanliness.
Numoo Blafo II also advised the general public to practice the act of buying food at clean areas and wash hands with soap and water after coming in contact with a cholera patient.
He said the AMA has attached much seriousness to the matter thus setting up a sensitization project to educate the public on the cholera pandemic.
Census officers to demonstrate against delayed payment of allowance
Supervisors and field officers employed in the recent 2010 National Population and Housing Census are planning to hit the streets in a demonstration against delayed payment of allowances.
The officers who were engaged in the mop-up and damage control exercises say they are displeased with the Ghana Statistical Service for refusal to honour payment of outstanding allowance.
The Census Secretariat sought the additional hands in the enumeration of households which had not been captured in the actual census. Enumerators and supervisors who opted to participate in the mop up are worried about delayed payment of allowances.
Spokesperson for the aggrieved personnel in the Ashanti region, Evans Nunoo who explained the matter said they feel betrayed by the Authority as far as the contract agreement is concerned. He further lamented for the waste of time in sitting at hoping to be recalled to complete the Nation-wide.
In a related development, the Public Relations Officer of the Census Secretariat, Michael Adu Gyamfi says he is optimistic that the affected people will be paid soon as authorities attached seriousness to the issue. He called for calm nerves on the situation.
The officers who were engaged in the mop-up and damage control exercises say they are displeased with the Ghana Statistical Service for refusal to honour payment of outstanding allowance.
The Census Secretariat sought the additional hands in the enumeration of households which had not been captured in the actual census. Enumerators and supervisors who opted to participate in the mop up are worried about delayed payment of allowances.
Spokesperson for the aggrieved personnel in the Ashanti region, Evans Nunoo who explained the matter said they feel betrayed by the Authority as far as the contract agreement is concerned. He further lamented for the waste of time in sitting at hoping to be recalled to complete the Nation-wide.
In a related development, the Public Relations Officer of the Census Secretariat, Michael Adu Gyamfi says he is optimistic that the affected people will be paid soon as authorities attached seriousness to the issue. He called for calm nerves on the situation.
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