World Health Organization thesis of ‘Safe blood for saving mothers’ aims to forestall maternal deaths
Specialists in DHCC speak about pregnancy-related complications that lead to blood loss
Higher superiority – compared to a West – of pregnancy complications in a UAE due to increasing risk factors of diabetes, plumpness and mixed pregnancies
DHCC-wide blood collection expostulate scheduled on Sep 25
Medical specialists pronounced women in a UAE knowledge aloft levels of pregnancy-related complications compared to a West due to a aloft superiority of risk factors like obesity, diabetes and mixed pregnancies.
Optimum prenatal caring is vicious to forestall pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications. Severe draining during smoothness and after birth is a vital means of mortality, morbidity and long-term disability.
The cautionary recommendation comes brazen of World Blood Donor Day, celebrated annually on Jun 14 by a World Health Organization (WHO). The Day aims to lift recognition towards timely entrance to protected blood and blood products to forestall maternal deaths, campaigned by thesis ‘Safe blood for saving mothers’.
The tact highlights a need for protected blood and blood products, and interjection intentional delinquent blood donors.
In a UAE, maternal mankind ratio is 12.0 per 100,000 live births, according to a WHO.
Medical specialists in obstetrics and gynecology during Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC) indicate to a internal aptitude of a World Blood Donor Day 2014 theme.
Specialists during DHCC, a health and wellness end that brings together a resources of services in healthcare, medical preparation and research, pronounced there are common complications that means blood detriment during birth in a UAE.
Dr Elsa de Menezes, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist from Mediclinic City Hospital (MCH), spoke of a common snarl – postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) or detriment of some-more than 500 mL of blood, following a birth of a baby.
She said, “Excessive blood detriment during birth is one of a many dreaded complications. Based on my use in a UAE over a past 6 years, women in a emirates knowledge distant some-more pregnancy-related complications compared to a West.”
Dr Menezes, who lerned and used in a UK before to fasten MCH, works with high risk obstetric patients, and has immeasurable knowledge in handling profound patients with kidney and liver transplants.
She explained that a aloft levels of pregnancy-related complications are due to risk factors like obesity, diabetes, mixed pregnancies, and grand multiparity (women giving birth some-more than 5 times). “The risk of postpartum hemorrhage increases due to these factors. Grand multiparity is common among Emiratis. Easy entrance to flood treatments, that mostly formula in mixed pregnancies, also increases a risk of PPH,” she said.
Other risk factors are anemia, and existent medical abnormalities with a uterus and placenta, she said, advising awaiting women to safeguard they get best prenatal caring and correct diagnosis of risk factors.
Dr Yuliya Burmagina-Mikhael, Specialist Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Femiclinic, elaborated on a significance of accurate diagnosis.
She pronounced accurate diagnosis is essential to delineate intensity risk factors like hypertension and anemia as good as a participation of any abnormalities or story of blood detriment in progressing pregnancies. “Arguably blood detriment is a many preventable means of maternal death.”
Dr Burmagina-Mikhael, who specializes in early and modernized pregnancies, infertility, and gynecological diseases, emphasized a purpose of accurate imaging record and modernized surgical techniques like interventional radiology to detect and ready for any eventuality of blood detriment during child birth.
She added, “Eventual complications can be managed and treated in time if risk is identified early and prenatal care, including diet and dietary supplements, is given due diligence.”
In a statement, Dubai Healthcare City said: “Improving a health of a village is a priority. Last year’s blood collection expostulate was dedicated to children with thalassemia. We demeanour brazen to lifting recognition this year towards a persisting need for unchanging donations. In organisation with Dubai Blood Donation Center (DBDC), a DHCC blood collection expostulate will take place on Sep 25, 2014 between 11 am to 4 pm during Mohammed Bin Rashid Academic Medical Center (MBR-AMC) during Dubai Healthcare City.”
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