By Modou Kanteh
Doctors at the Bwiam General Hospital in Foni Kansala have for the first time successfully conducted a caesarean delivery of triples on a 20-year-old Senegalese woman. The triplets who are all female and weighing 1.7kg, 1.8 kg and 1.9kg respectively, all have Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, and Respiration (APGAR) scores.
According to the hospital official Facebook page post, the young lady was presented to the hospital on account of labor. The team headed by Dr. David Demba conducted the caesarean surgery despite the mother being anemic.
He further explained that two pints of bloods was transfused on the young lady to help improve her anemic situation, adding that both mother and babies are stable.
Bwiam General Hospital is a public hospital in Foni Kansala which provides a variety of health care services to the general population. The hospital was established in 2003 and serves as the only tertiary health facility in the Western Health Region of The Gambia. It covers a catchment area that includes parts of the West Coast Region, and the Lower River Region of the country. The provincial hospital is also frequented by patients from Cansamance, the southern region of Senegal.
The facility prides itself as a centre of excellence, based on the commitment of staff, quality services delivery and importantly excellence in leadership.
Health care delivery is one of President Barrow’s key priority areas. And his government has invested so much resources in strengthening health care delivery across the country by upgrading some regional health care centres to majors ones. Bwiam General Hospital is among those major hospitals in rural Gambia. Social commentators have indicated that if a provincial hospital like Bwiam could conduct such a complicated operation, then the country’s health sector is in the right footing.