An alternative to the more usual methods to face the labor and the birth of a child. A tub for water births was donated to the Gynecology and Obstetrics department of the San Giovanni di Dio Hospital in Crotone by the “Notes Outside the Hearing” Committee, made up of the lawyers of the Pythagorean forum Roberto Stricagnoli, Serafina Cavaliere, Marzia Lucente, Francesco Licari , Caterina Marano and Pina Notarianni. The Crotone lawyers, already last December, on the occasion of the charity concert “Notes outside the hearing”, had announced that they wanted to donate 13 thousand euros to the Gynecology and Obstetrics department, with the aim of sending a positive message of hope and to celebrate the figure of women, as well as the right to life and health.
A concrete gesture of great generosity and sensitivity towards public health and the entire community, for which the Gynecology department of the city hospital, directed by Domenico Galea and the management of the ASP, led by the extraordinary commissioner Antonio Brambilla, intend to thank Sincerely, the Crotone lawyers and all those who participated in the fundraising. As a sign of gratitude, the ASP, through the medical management, led by Lucio Cosentino, intended to organize an inauguration ceremony of the tank, scheduled for Tuesday 11 June at 11.30.
For the Gynecology and Obstetrics department of San Giovanni di Dio, this is a very important acquisition, as the water birth tub generally promotes a feeling of well-being in the pregnant woman, accelerating the processes and alleviating the pain of contractions. Carrying out around 1200 births a year, the complex Gynecology and Obstetrics operational unit, whose staff is made up of seven trained doctors, two Cuban doctors and, according to the calendar, two doctors in specialist training from the University of Catanzaro, has become a birth point of reference and importance, both for the city of Crotone and for the vast surrounding area. The caesarean section rate in 2023 was 11.2% for the first caesarean sections and 21.8% for the total caesarean sections: a percentage clearly below the national average (19.9% for the first caesarean sections and 36.35 the total), as well as the lowest rate in Calabria (the average of which is 34.7%).
The acquisition of an instrument such as the labor and delivery tub, offering many women giving birth the possibility of experimenting with immersion in water, could incentivize both the number of patients who turn to the Pythagorean hospital and the further reduction in the rate of cesarean sections. An objective strongly desired by the WHO and the international medical community, in order to provide caesarean sections only to women who actually need it. For this purpose and to promote a process of humanization of labor and birth, the Crotone Provincial Health Authority is working so that in the future it will also be possible to offer birth analgesia, a technique used not only to eliminate the pain of labor and natural birth , but indicated in particular obstetric situations, such as premature labor, prolonged labor, induced birth, trial labor due to a previous caesarean section, or even when the pregnant woman is suffering from certain pathologies.
