Dr. Lawrence Kazibwe, the Acting Deputy Executive Director Kawempe National Referral Hospital said on Friday that the situation has now normalised.
Kawempe National Referral Hospital registered 23 perinatal mortalities and four maternal deaths in the first week of the nationwide Covid19 lock down, according to the hospital records.
This is the highest number of deaths to be recorded in the non- boom months considering that births had reduced immensely from the highs of 80 to 56 per day.
However, Dr. Lawrence Kazibwe, the Acting Deputy Executive Director Kawempe National Referral Hospital told The Uganda Times on Friday that the situation has now normalized.
He noted that they were initially overwhelmed by the fact that the president’s directive caught most expectant mothers and service providers unawares.
He said mothers were being brought in very poor shape, with ruptured uteruses due to prolonged labor and still births.
Among the initiatives the Hospital has embarked on amidst this crisis as a way of complying with the physical distancing measures, they have had to suspend other services, which don’t relate to delivery that the hospital handles including people with fertility challenges and those that have prolonged menstruation periods among others whose clinics are normally held on Mondays and Fridays.
Even for the expectant mothers seeking antenatal care, each is given a specific day of the three days of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to attend and that once one comes in outside that schedule they are forced to turn them back unless it’s an emergency.
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