Congo/Health: ways to reduce maternal and infant deaths
The review workshop on maternal, neonatal and infant and child deaths, organized from 22 to 23 December by the Adolphe-Sicé General Hospital, ended with the adoption of several recommendations aimed at reducing the rate of these deaths.
The workshop was part of the government's vision to improve the quality of care in hospitals. To do this, pediatricians, gyneco-obstetricians, midwives, nurses of the Adolphe-Sicé General Hospital and also health workers from other health structures of the city met to analyze the factors of maternal and infant/juvenile deaths and thus propose solutions and solutions to the problem.It is totally unacceptable that maternal and infant deaths occur during childbirth." It is totally unacceptable that avoidable maternal deaths continue to occur in our hospitals. It is therefore necessary that practices including midwives, doctors, health personnel, managers of the facilities, etc., be analysed within each health facility.It is therefore necessary to analyze the practices within each health facility, including midwives, doctors, health staff and managers of the facilities,"said Lambert Chakirou, Director General of the Adolphe-Sicé General Hospital, opening the meeting.
For two days, participants reviewed cases of maternal and pediatric deaths that occurred at the General Hospital Adolphe-Sicé. The exchanges and discussions, in an approach of complementarity and synergy around the issue, were instructive and beneficial to all.
Thus, the participants decided that the doctors working in the large hospitals should strengthen the capacities of the agents who are in the Integrated Health Centres, to review the mechanisms of interdepartmental and interstructural collaboration without forgetting the continuation and deepening of continuous training in certain sectors. An agenda for the implementation of these recommendations will be established and submitted to the general management of the hospital and to the supervisory authority. "The work to which you have been subjected is a very significant contribution to the improvement of the care of the pregnant woman and the child who is going to be born as well as the one who is born in order to significantly reduce the maternal, neonatal and infant mortality rate," said Gildas Ngouloubi, Director of Medical Affairs at the Adolphe-Sicé General Hospital." I will pass on to whoever is entitled the various recommendations that you have taken as leaders and health professionals since you have sifted through the various events and causes of the disease.I will forward to the right person the various recommendations you have made as managers and health professionals since you have examined the various events and causes of maternal, neonatal and infant deaths at the Adolphe-Sicé General Hospital," he added.
According to the World Health Report, maternal mortality in Africa is 1000 deaths per 100,000 live births. The risk of death on the continent is 1 in 16 compared to 1 in 3500 in North America. Neonatal mortality is estimated at 45 deaths per 1000 live births compared to 5 per 1000 in developed countries. In addition, the rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS varies between 25 and 30 per cent in some African countries. In Congo, the situation is not very bright.
Source: www.adiac-congo.com
