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May 15, 2016 News
The life of a 21-year-old woman was saved on Thursday after she was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after she started to experience complications in her pregnancy.
It was the fourth pregnancy of the young woman and one of the high risk cases for the hospital.
According to information reaching this newspaper, the woman had suffered a ruptured uterus caused by the short intervals of her previous pregnancies.
The doctors had to perform an emergency surgery, which resulted in profuse bleeding. However, they managed to control the situation and repair the uterus and save both the baby and the mother.
When contacted Public Health Minister, Dr. George Norton, stated that the hospital received a miraculous result following the surgery. He stated that the baby, who is in a critical condition at the hospital, remains under close. However, they were successful in preventing a maternal death.
“In spite of the fact that the public health system has serious challenges and limitations we have managed to achieve a miraculous result, saving both mother and child. The ministry remains committed to ensuring that we achieve more successful surgeries like this case,” he said.
Dr Norton indicated that the woman’s previous pregnancies were within short intervals and so caused the uterus to become fragile. However, the doctors took consideration of her age, and decided to repair it but took precaution to prevent further pregnancies. “So the doctor inserted an inter-uterine device and will advise against her getting pregnant again,” Dr Norton disclosed. The woman was 40 weeks pregnant.
As of December 30 last year, Guyana had recorded 17 maternal deaths, according to Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Shamdeo Persaud.
At that time he said that the Public Health Ministry was still gathering data and as such a few cases were still under investigation by a committee to determine whether they were either a direct or indirect pregnancy-related cause.
In 2000, a total of 189 world leaders met at the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit and accepted the Millennium Declaration. It was there they agreed to the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are intended to overcome poverty and other related targets. One of those goals was to improve maternal health and reduce it by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015.
So far, the maternal mortality ratio has decreased from 270 per cent in 1990 to 86 per cent in 2012. Therefore, in order to achieve its target, Guyana would have had to reduce its maternal mortality rate to 67.5 percent by the end of 2015.
The Public Health Minister earlier this year stated that while he is saddened that Guyana was unable to meet the millennium goal, the Ministry will still continue to tackle the issue and bring it down to the lowest in the Caribbean.
“We made a commitment on our campaign trail to have maternity mortality rates reduced and we uphold that,” he said, adding that the majority of maternal death cases were pointing directly to the negligence of health care professionals.
“We have recognized that we have a real problem on our hands and we have decided to tackle it by taking a multi-sectoral approach,” he said, noting that the ministry plans to improve the physical conditions of maternity facilities, especially at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
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