PREGNANT women in Dakawa village, Mvomero district Morogoro are asked to go with delivering tools at the health center during giving birth. Those delivering tools include pair of gloves, oxytocin injection, plastic carpet called mackintosh, surgical blade and surgical sutures.
Those delivering tools include pair of gloves, oxytocin injection, plastic carpet called mackintosh, surgical blade and surgical sutures.
Ms Nelly Peter (37), who has an infant of two months said that she was asked to go with three pairs of gloves, oxytocin injection and surgical sutures which cost her 7000/-.
She said that all the things were used although she did not bleed much but she was injected.
“I just had a little bleeding but I was injected. Also what is most important than anything is the pair of gloves that’s what the medical attendants say, because if the injection could have not been used I could have returned with them at home,” she insisted.
Roda Pamba (32) is having a pregnancy of eight months and has a single child of ten years. She said that with the first child she was told to go with two pairs of gloves, bleaching chemical, liquid soap called Detto, plastic carpet (mackintosh) and a surgical blade.
She also said that, with the second child which died after birth she paid 10,000/- for three pairs of gloves and she was given back 7,000/- as a change.
The Enrolled and Public Health Nurse of Dakawa dispensary, Ms Margreth Yapesa said that at the moment they do not have gloves and surgical blade and therefore they ask the pregnant women to buy them.
“When we get shortage of gloves, oxytocin injection and surgical blade we ask the pregnant women to bring them for emergency,” she said.
She said, they make order every after three months from MSD and many times they are supplied less from what they ordered.
However, the retired Medical attendant, Ms Celina Lugenge added that they sometimes use two to six pair of gloves to a single mother and therefore they ask the pregnant women to add more in case they have few.
“We encourage them to prepare with the things which the dispensary does not have at the moment so that we help them to deliver safely,” she said.