Researchers have designed a new version of a labor-tracking tool for pregnant women that they predict could reduce the use of hormonal intervention during labor and lower the number of cesarean ...
Background: Morbidity of birth asphyxia has been estimated to be 42 million disability-adjusted life years. The study sought to assess the impact of the use and completion of partograph during labour ...
Cesarean section rates worldwide are rising, driven by medically unnecessary cesarean use. The new World Health Organization Labour Care Guide (LCG) aims to improve the quality of care for women ...
Fifty midwives were recently awarded certificates after a successful completion of a two week training on the use of partograph, at a ceremony held at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH). The ...
A pilot trial of the WHO’s Labour Care Guide reveals important considerations for implementation and for future trials aimed at reducing the inappropriate use of cesarean section, particularly in low- ...
MOTHERHOOD is a blessing, but in many parts of the world childbirth leaves women permanently injured and turns them into social outcasts. In West Africa, only about 1 percent of pregnant women have ...
Accra , Nov. 10, GNA - Stakeholders at a seminar on Maternal Deaths have called on the Nurses and Midwives Council to re-consider replacing the existing Partograph which had been in existence in Ghana ...