Maternity unit is a big department that provides maternal and child health care services including gynecological cases.
Midwives carry a huge responsibility in helping women through the hard work and pain that is labour, yet what a privilege it is to help women and their partners capture the excitement of bringing a new human being into the world.
MATERNITY SERVICES
Our services include
Antenatal Care: Thus, taking care of pregnant women who are sick and monitoring them until they become fit to carry on with their pregnancy.
Labour and Delivery: We monitor clients who are due for labour to deliver safely.
Postnatal Care: The labour unit also take care of preperal women after delivery for 24 hours before we discharge them including their babies.
Operative Care: We take care of Caesarian section clients and any client who have undergone surgery like Hysterectomy, myomectomy and Salpingectomy.
Abortion Care: We take care of bleeding cases that could not go term.
The department has a bed capacity of 24 beds that have been divided into sections where the above services are provided.
It has a recovery room for the surgical cases , room one for postnatal cases and room two for antenatal and bleeding cases
CORE ACTIVITIES
Conduction of delivery
Administration of medication
Monitoring of clients vitals
Monitoring of labour cases with parthograph
Daily bathing and dressing of baby’s cord
Dressing of surgical wounds
Management of abortion and its complications
Management of obsolete and gynecological
Daily ward rounds by a medical officer and staffs (midwives).