19 Feb 2019

In the past three years, home deliveries and or births before arrival at clinics at Mokubilo were 60, Mmea 35 and Khwee 77.

Assistant Minister of Health and Wellness, Mr Biggie Butale said the causes of such were that women were not coming for antenatal care clinic to get the necessary education and advice to plan to reach timely to health facilities in the vent of labour.

Mr Butale said the associated risks included labour and delivery complications that impacted on the wellbeing of both the mother and the baby.

Mr Butale explained that communication in the form of campaigns and health talks on the need for early registration and adherence to antenatal care visits by the midwife from Mokubilo to Mmea Health Post on a weekly basis had been done while Khwee has a resident widwife.

He further said the plan to upgrade Mokubilo Health Post to a clinic without maternity was forfeited to accommodate the upgrading of Letlhakane Primary School.

He said Mokubilo and Mosu health posts were initially in NDP 11 for upgrade to clinic without maternity, but were both forfeited to accommodate the upgrade of the hospital.

Boteti East MP, Mr Sethomo Lelatisitswe had asked the minister to update Parliament on the number of cases of home deliveries and births before arrival at clinics reported at Mokubilo, Mmea and Khwee.

He also wanted the minister to state the causes of such and the associated risks, measures in place to reduce such cases, and when government would build a maternity wing at Mokubilo Clinic. ENDS