Winneba Hospital recorded two maternal deaths in 2016

Winneba (C/R), Feb. 16, GNA -Two maternal deaths were recorded in Winneba Municipal Hospital in 2016 against one in 2015 and one in 2014. 

Mr. Emmanuel K. Gyamfi, Administrator of the Hospital, disclosed this at the 2016 Health Performance Review Meeting held at the facility at Winneba.

He indicated that fresh still births recorded in the facility were 15 in 2016 against 12 in 2015 and 37 in 2014, while macerated still births reduced from 58 in 2014, 46 in 2015 and 34 in 2016.

Mr. Gyamfi stated that institutional infants’ deaths increased from one in 2015 to 11 in 2016 and institutional under five deaths also increased from six in 2015 to 19 in 2016.

 On the way forward, he said, strengthening the measures and protocols they have put in place in order to reduce maternal dearth’s from two to zero,  fresh still births from 15 to zero  Infants deaths from 11 to zero and  under 5 death from 19 to zero is their top most priority in the coming years.

He mentioned intensification of their sensitization programmes for pregnant women in order to seek early and regular antenatal care, to help to ascertain their health status as well as that of the foetus, to identify and manage danger signs if there are any, as some of the measures they have put in place.

Deliveries in the facility reduced from 2,198 in 2015 to 2,133 in 2016 and out of the number of  deliveries in  2015, 695 was through caesarean section against 672 in 2016, and family planning acceptors increased from 3,228 in 2015 to 3,282 in 2016, he said.        

According to him Out Patient Department attendants reduced from 59,974 in 2015 to 58,244 in 2016 and out of the figure in 2015, 53,261 were insured against 52,365 in 2016, while 6,713 were non-insured clients in 2015 against 5,879 in 2016.

 Mr. Gyamfi lamented that, OPD per Capita in 2015 was 0.75 percent against 0.71 in 2016, adding that HIV Positive cases diagnosed reduced from 35 in 2015 to five in 2016.

He said 1,123 Hypertension new cases at the OPD in 2016 against 4,030 in 2015 and 5,606 in 2014 while Diabetes new cases reduced from 1, 686 in 2014 to 1,423 to 204 in 2016.

 Malaria topped the ‘Top Ten Causes of OPD Morbidity’ with 13,897 (31.9%) against 18,808 ( 29.6%) in 2015, with Acute Ear Infection at the bottom with 1,525 cases representing 3.5 percent and Gynae conditions with 1,716 cases representing 2.7 percent in 2015, Mr. Gyamfi, added.