Overcoming flood at night helps 'mother and child safe'

16:16 September 27, CentermedicaldistrictQuy Chaureceived information that a pregnant woman was in labor and needed urgent assistance. Accordingly, this pregnant woman was facing a "dilemma" because she was surrounded by floodwaters and could not reach a medical facility to give birth.

Specifically: The woman in labor was from Luong Lanh village, Chau Binh commune, Quy Chau district. Before the time of labor, the woman went for a check-up, had an ultrasound, and predicted that the fetus was large. When the woman went into labor, it was determined that it was a difficult birth, so midwife Vi Thi Ly (Chau Binh commune health station) took the woman to Quy Chau district health center to give birth.

However, when they reached Bu Bai slope in Chau Hanh commune, the medical staff and the pregnant woman could not move further because the road had been eroded by the flood. Midwife Vi Thi Ly and her family decided to take the pregnant woman back to Que Phong District Medical Center to give birth. However, this road was also not clear due to flooding.

Faced with this situation, midwife Vi Thi Ly called the Quy Chau District Medical Center to ask for instructions and was instructed by the leaders of the Quy Chau District Medical Center to take the pregnant woman to Chau Thang Medical Station (the nearest place) to give birth.

Immediately afterwards, the leaders of the Quy Chau District Medical Center sent an emergency team from outside the hospital to Chau Thang Medical Station to assist, and at the same time directed two midwives to closely monitor and continuously report on the progress of the pregnant woman. However, due to heavy rain and landslides, the emergency team from outside the hospital could not move to Chau Thang Medical Station.

Faced with the urgent situation, the Quy Chau District Medical Center reported to the district leaders. The Quy Chau District leaders directed support units to urgently clear the road for the emergency team to go to the medical station to help the mother give birth, and if necessary, perform a cesarean section to remove the fetus...

By 7 p.m., the landslides had been cleared and Highway 48 was cleared. The emergency team from the Quy Chau District Medical Center rushed to the Chau Thang Commune Medical Station to help the pregnant woman.

At around 8:00 p.m. the same day, with the support of doctors and nurses, the mother gave birth naturally to a baby boy weighing 3.2 kg, the baby cried loudly and suckled well. During the birth, due to the large fetus, the mother's appendages were complicatedly torn, the doctors and nurses performed hemostasis, and sent an ambulance to take the mother to Quy Chau District Medical Center for further monitoring and treatment, while also vaccinating the baby. At this time, the health of the mother and baby boy was stable, "mother and child are safe".

In this flood, Quy Chau district suffered very serious damage, 1 person died, 1,210 houses were flooded from 1-5m deep; over 5,000 people had to evacuate; 3 communes and 6 villages were completely isolated, 7 schools were deeply submerged in water. Thousands of families had to live in a tragic situation. Temporary accommodation, hunger and cold due to property and houses collapsing, being swept away and flooded...

To ensure disease prevention and support people to stabilize their lives soon, right after the flood receded, Quy Chau District Medical Center sent many staff from the center and medical stations to people's homes in hamlets to support people in treating water sources as well as disinfecting the surrounding environment.

Doctor Dang Tan Minh - Director of Quy Chau District Medical Center said: The Center has distributed more than 21,000 Aquatabs tablets and 52 kg of Chloramine B to 12 communes and towns to treat water sources. Medical staff directly instructed each household on personal hygiene, environmental hygiene, ensuring cooked food and boiled water; and directly treated domestic water for the people.

At this time, the Quy Chau District Medical Center is also stepping up propaganda work for people about the risks of epidemics after floods; strengthening surveillance work, promptly detecting and thoroughly handling outbreaks if any./.