Fifteen obstetrics and gynaecologists at
the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) have been trained to use
a vacuum device known as Kiwi to conduct vaginal delivery of babies.
An
obstetric and gynaecologist based in Ireland, Dr Oluwole Alabi whose company
Mufam Advertising Trust Limited recommended the tool, said the device would
discourage the rate hospital carry out caesarean section (CS).
According
to him, the device will help to reduce child mortality because it can be used
to assist women in labour deliver safely.
Alabi
said the device encompasses all aspects of conventional delivery equipment.
Unlike the bogus conventional machine used to induce delivery, it is portable
and power-free, he added.
He
said a doctor can single handedly deliver an expectant mother of a baby. “This
is not so in the case of conventional delivery machine as many staff are
required to operate it,” he said.
The training, he said, was important
without which the mechanism may become problematic to the users and, as such
and put expectant mothers and their babies in danger.
According
to him, the device is easy to use and it has about 99 per cent chances of
assisting women achieve vaginal delivery without complications.
This,
he said, will prevent or reduce deliveries through caesarean section (CS).
The
Managing Director of the company, Dr Gbenga Salau, said his organisation
introduced the product into Nigeria so that expectant mothers do not die
needlessly during child birth.
He
said a unit of the device costs about N10, 000, adding that Salau, who is
the convener of the training, said the government and private organisation can
buy into the programme.