An alternative to the more usual methods of face labor and the birth of a child. A water birth tub was donated to the gynecology and obstetrics department of the San Giovanni di Dio Hospital in Crotone by the committee Notes Outside Hearingmade up of 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 a charity concert, had announced their intention donate 13 thousand euros to the gynecology and obstetrics departmentwith the aim of sending a positive and hopeful message and celebrating 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, wish 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 Lucio Cosentinointended 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 woman, accelerating the processes and alleviating the pain of contractions. Running approx 1,200 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, is has become a reference birth point and of importance, both for the city of Crotone and for the vast surrounding area.
The caesarean section rate in 2023 was found to be 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 for the total), as well as the lowest rate in Calabria (whose average is 34.7%). The acquisition of a tool such as the labor and delivery tub, offering many women giving birth the possibility of experience immersion in water, it could incentivize both the number of patients who turn to the Pythagorean hospital and the further reduction in the cesarean section rate.
A an objective strongly desired by the WHO and by 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 childbirth, 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 for eliminate pain of labor and natural birth, but indicated in particular obstetric situations, such as labour prematurelabor prolongedchildbirth inducedtrial labor due to a previous caesarean section, or even when the pregnant woman is suffering from certain pathologies.
