Midwife cautions pregnant ladies in opposition to use of purgatives 

Madam Ruthlyn Ayaaba, a Senior Midwife on the Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital, has expressed concern in regards to the rising follow of pregnant ladies who utilized purgatives to hasten labour course of of their properties.

“The use of enema hasten to labour process is very dangerous because it comes with a whole lot of complications,” she informed the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at Dormaa-Ahenkro within the Bono Region.

She as an alternative, urged pregnant ladies to endeavour to go to the closest well being services every time they had been in labour or skilled abnormalities of their physique system to guard themselves and their unborn infants.

Madam Ayaaba informed the GNA that the hospital welcomed six infants between December 31 2024 and New Year Day January 1, 2025, saying all of the infants and their moms had been in good situation and had since been discharged to their properties.

She stated 5 of the infants together with a set of two feminine twins had been born on December 31 and one child on the New Year Day, saying the twins was delivered by way of Caesarean Section.

Source: GNA