A Public Health Nurse in the Jaman North District of the Bono Region, Madam Rose Gyasi has stated that most pregnant women refuse to provide vital information during their pregnancy period.
She noted that lack of openness on the part of expectant mothers makes it difficult for health workers to provide quality health care during pregnancy and labour which sometimes results in maternal mortality in the country.
Madam Rose Gyasi expressed that most pregnant women also fail to attend antenatal care on time with some of them moving from one health facility to the other to hide their identity after being diagnosed with any infectious disease especially HIV/AIDS which needed to be managed on time indicating that such unwarranted mobility of some pregnant women makes it difficult for health workers to deliver effectively on their mandate.
She also attributed some of the leading factors of maternal mortality to the work of some spiritual leaders who also give false hope to some expectant mothers which compel them to defy the directives of the health professionals that leads to the increasing rate of maternal mortality.
Madam Rose Gyasi has therefore pleaded with pregnant women to as a matter of urgency attend hospitals or health facilities to reveal their constraints during their pregnancy period to enable them to receive the necessary advice on how to protect themselves from things that may harm their pregnancy.
She indicated that some pregnant women also make an intention to abort their pregnancies by using some concoctions which sometimes end in their death making cases of septic abortion rampant among pregnant women of late hence the need to visit health facilities for comprehensive abortion care to save lives.
On the negative behavioural temperament of some health workers toward their clients at the various hospital, Madam Rose admitted the fact and attributed it to the poor parental upbringing of their wards before joining the health services.
She added that some health workers also get access to nursing schools through a series of protocols which prevent such people from willingly doing the work that eventually affects health care delivery.
