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Jul 19, 2012 News
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) recently refurbished its operating theatre located in the maternity section to increase safe motherhood outcome. By this month-end the first surgery would be executed in the operating theatre.
According to Sister June Cato, Senior Department Supervisor, following discussions on maternal deaths at the country’s tertiary hospital, it was decided that the maternity section should have its own operating theatre. This will aid the time factor that is needed in saving lives, she added.
Cato emphasized that currently mothers who have to get cesarean section are operated on at the hospital’s main theatre, where other surgeries are done.
The hospital also wants to enhance mothers’ comfort by reducing the occurrence of two persons per bed. Cato said that for the year mothers were not required to share a bed. She noted that the prenatal area has 27 beds and the postnatal area has 44 beds. For the year there was a 75 percent occupancy because of the strict monitoring of expectant mothers.
She explained that mothers are screened by the doctor before admission. As such they are either sent home, to the labour room or to the maternity ward.
In the case where babies are patients in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NCU) the mothers could leave the facility and visit their babies when necessary. This has reduced overcrowding in the postnatal department.
For instance, Amerindians referred from hinterland hospitals sometimes stay at the Amerindian Hostel maternity section and visit their babies in NCU.
According to Cato, the postnatal and prenatal bed areas are being extended. She stated that by the end of the week construction works to remove the washrooms from both areas and attach them to the exterior of the buildings will be completed.
It is anticipated that six beds will be added to the postnatal area. In the prenatal area there will be a prenatal ward, labour ward and birthing room. The prenatal ward will provide accommodation for persons who have high blood pressure and diabetes and need to be monitored.
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