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.
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