Saving Lives at Birth in Kawempe amidst COVID-19

In the last period, we had several clinics that supported mothers to have an wonderful experience at both. Some of the clinics included.

ANTENATAL CLINIC

In this first quarter, we had a total of 11 antenatal mothers of which 5 of them were new attendances and 6 were continuing mothers.

MATERNITY CLINIC

In the month of January, we had 3 deliveries, 2 C/S, and 1 SVD whereas in February we had 2 mothers for SVD and none in March. The mothers who got a C/S had children who were getting tired and distressed. The solution to delivering them by cesarean supported the life at birth. These babies were resuscitated to enable them to breathe at birth.

IMMUNISATION CLINIC

The immunization clinic is doing quite well. It is an intervention to those that have just been delivered in order to support life at birth.

 POSTNATAL CLINIC

The number of mothers for postnatal mostly depends on the number of mothers that bring their children for immunization. However, some of them send their maids with the babies, while others failed to do the required post-natal tests, citing the lack of funds.

  FAMILY PLANNING CLINNIC.

The numbers are still very low and this may be due to poor marketing of our services and the prices of the long-term family planning methods have also led to low numbers or low turn-up, considering the facilities around are issuing the same service at a lower or no cost.

OTHER SERVICES

OUTREACH SERVICES; we carried out 4 outreaches in different communities around us and the response was encouraging.

DRUGS; these are well dispensed, the stock in and out is well documented and inventory is well managed. However, we find a challenge of drugs expiring on the shelves due to low patients turn up (special cases).

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On behalf of CFU, I am taking the privilege to thank you all for your generous support and help provide under the project “Saving lives at birth in Kawempe”

In this last quarter at CFU Medical Centre, we had 11 mothers who were attending antenatal care at our facility.  Out of the 11, 1 was in her 1st trimester, 4 of them in their 2nd trimester, and six were in the third trimester.

Of all six mothers who were in their 3^rd trimester gave birth, 5 of them it was a normal delivery and only one was for cesarean section.

The one for the cesarean section had twins with a malpresentation. For this mother, it was her first time giving birth. She was so worried and scared thinking that she will not make it. But when she came to the facility our trained and skilled nurses took her through the entire process of labor. That is the presentation of pain, true signs of labor, exercise, and feeding. The cesarean section was safely done and she gave birth to twins. The mother and the baby boys are doing well.

BABY GENESIS 

Another mother came to our facility when she was so stressed and fearful to give birth because of her past history, this was her 3^rd pregnancy. It was very unfortunate that her firstborn got cerebral palsy which was caused due fetal distress. The secondborn died a few minutes after they were born. She kept on asking the nurses “Will my child be okay without complications?” She was helped by the nurses and she delivered normally and safely to a bouncing baby boy. On seeing the baby, she said ‘’onelabiza ennaku’’ meaning that the CFU nurse helped her forget her sadness and she named her child Genesis implying a new start.