CROTONE – 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 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 to celebrate the figure of women, as well as the right to life and health.
Below average caesarean sections
For the Gynecology and Obstetrics department of the ‘San Giovanni di Dio’ – we read in a note from the Asp of Crotone – “this is a very important acquisition, as the tub for water births generally favors the giving pregnancy a feeling of well-being, accelerating the processes and alleviating the pain of contractions. Carrying out around 1,200 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 rate of caesarean sections in 2023 was 11.2% for the first caesareans and 21.8% for the total caesareans: a percentage clearly below the national average (19.9% for the first cesarean sections and 36.35 in total), as well as the lowest rate in Calabria (whose average is 34.7%)”.
Objective birth analgesia
The acquisition of the labor and delivery tub, offering many women giving birth the opportunity to experiment with immersion in water, could encourage both the number of patients who turn to the Pythagorean hospital and a 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” writes the Provincial Health Authority of Crotone which also communicates that it is working “so that in the future it is It is also 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 cesarean section , or even when the pregnant woman is suffering from certain pathologies”.
“A concrete gesture of great generosity and sensitivity towards public health and the entire community – concludes the ASP note – for which the Gynecology department of the city hospital, directed by Domenico Galea and the ASP management, led by the extraordinary commissioner Antonio Brambilla, wish to sincerely thank the Crotone lawyers and all those who participated in the fundraising”. The inauguration of the pool is scheduled for Tuesday 11 June at 11.30.
