An alternative to the more usual ways of dealing with the labor and birth of a baby. A tub for water birth was donated to the Gynecology department and Obstetrics at the San Giovanni di Dio Hospital Crotone from the “Notes Outside” Committee Court hearing”made up of the lawyers of the Pythagorean Bar Roberto Stricagnoli, Serafina Cavaliere, Marzia Lucente, Francesco Licari, Caterina Marano and Pina Notarianni.
The Crotone lawyers, already last December, on the occasion of the “Notes outside the hearing” charity concert, 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 Of 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 Brambillawish to sincerely thank the Crotone lawyers and all those who participated in the fundraising.
As a sign of gratitude, the Asp, through the medical management, led by Lucius Cosentino, intended to organize an inauguration ceremony for the pool, 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 tub for water births usually promotes a feeling of well-being in the pregnant womanaccelerating the processes and alleviating the pain of contractions.
Running approximately 1200 births per yearthe complex operational unit of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 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 reference and important birth point , both for the city of Crotone and for the vast surrounding area.
The caesarean section rate in 2023 was 11.2% for the first cesareans and 21.8% for the total cesareans: a percentage clearly below the national average (19.9% for the first cesarean sections and 36.35 for the total), as well as the lowest rate in Calabria ( whose average 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 for promote a process of humanization of labor and delivery, the Provincial Health Authority of Crotone
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 also indicated in particular obstetric situations, such as premature labor, prolonged labor, induced birth, test for a previous caesarean section, or even when the pregnant woman is suffering from certain pathologies.
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