BMSH Records 4,500 Ante-Natal, Monthly

Ante-natal healthcare programme at the Braithwaithe Memorial Specialist Hospital is presently going through an explosion.

Report shows that about 4,500 pregnant women attend the hospital for ant-natal care monthly.

The chief medical director of the hospital, Dr Bernard Aprioku disclosed this during an interview with The Weekend Tide in Port Harcourt.

According to the CMD, the said figure do not include old registered expectant mothers who regularly attend the programme. He said the management of the hospital was committed to safe delivery and as such the ante-natal healthcare programme is one of the areas that gulps serious attention.

A breakdown of the figure indicates that a maximum of 150 new pregnant mothers attend the hospital daily.

Aprioku said attention is given to every case, including referrals and the doctors had been doing quite well.

He said about a consultant gynecologist, all fellows are engaged to attend to the various cases. He attributed the increased public patronage the hospital had received in recent times, to the relocation of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH to Choba. This he noted had led to acute accommodation problems at B.M.S.H.

For optimal services, her said women who delivers without complications are allowed to go and only crucial cases and patience billed for operations and admitted.

He further disclosed that plans had been put in place by the Government to provide biffting structure at the hospital to check the problems of accommodation.

Staff and students of Rivers State College of Education (RSCOE) now upgraded to a university stage a solidarity rally yesterday to in appreciation to the state government’s decision to uplift the institution.