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Abortion Incidence and Severity of Complications in Kenya 2022, Health Facilities Survey (HFS)

Kenya, 2023
Health and Well-Being (HaW)
Kenneth Juma
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421. . Enter other ways in which treatment for abortion complications could be (q421_spy)

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Enter other ways in which treatment for abortion complications could be improved.
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1. Avail drugs 2. Prompt seminars 3. Medications are very costly 4. An extra nurse needed
1. Community sensitization 2.Teenage education in schools on effects of abortion. 3.Community health volunteers (CHVs) training on how to identify cases for early treatment. 4.Education of the Community on the effectiveness of Emergency cont
1. Have more insurance companies covering post abortion care services 2. Guidelines to regulate operations this ensuring uniformity.
1. Increase bed capacity for admissions of cases.
1. Installation of Electricity 2. More trained health care professionals 3. Provision of the equipments
1. Legal protection affects uptake of services 2. Procure drugs and consumables 3. Human resources
1. Maternity ward needed 2. Resting ward for patients 3. Need elevation to level 3; big workload
1. Need to improve on the supply of uterotonics
1. Some equipment are worn out 2. Commodities needed 3. Some students get stuck due to bills 4. Care packages from government 5. Sensitization trainings necessary
1. Training of focal persons 2. Drugs like uterotonics are not readily available 3. Only one MVA kit
1.CME (Continous Medical Education)on new guidelines for management of abortion cases be provided to health care providers e.g twice in a month
1.Demystify myths to avoid stigma 2.Criminalising private facility offering services need to stop 3. Blood Bank to be well stocked
1.Make transfusion available 2. Supply of cytotec need to be improved
1.Theatre to be completed to be able to do D&E and D&C 2. Health education to sensitize on safe abortion 3. Stock the PDT as required
An equipped area(ward) for post abortion cases
Attitude of health care providers
Availability of essential drugs (e.g. Misoprostol)
By being non judgemental,avoid stigmatisation,providing contraceptive method on discharge,early detection to avoid complications,Health education to patients
By having the health care providers at Woodlands Hospital go through the comprehensive PAC training.
Capacity building of service providers
Care wise the hospital is okay and able.
Community Facility linkages Offering health education Prompt diagnosis and management
Community mobilisation and awareness be done
Community outreach to schools and community awareness Patient follow up after treatment Create a special clinic for them Formation of groups for the Patients to encourage and be close with them
Community sensitization
Community sensitization about Abortion
Community sensitization and awareness of the services, work on the negative perspectives of abortion.
Community sensitization on safe abortion and dangers of unsafe abortion
Community sensitization on the need for early treatment.
Comprehensive post abortion care training to be done to the health care professionals
Conducting mentorship of personnel regarding post abortion care and complications and community sensitization on post abortion care.
Continual Medicl Education (CMEs) on PAC services,community sensitization on earlier recognition and danger signs of abortion
Counselling for every mother who has lost a baby
Create awareness in the community on the availability of PAC Services so that the patients seek them early enough
Create awareness on legality of safe abortion
Create blood Bank within the facility
Creating awareness on disadvantages of unwanted and early pregnancies in the community, Dangers of induced abortion,
Creating community awareness on dangers of unsafe abortions, the need to seek safe PAC Services early
Dimistify notion of this hospital being a mission hospital Sensitization of the community Students treated as oatuents not as students
Early detection for high risk patients
Educate teenagers on preventive measures(abortion),train hcps on safe abortion
Educate the public about PAC Services and their availability in hospitals.
Educating the public about PAC Services, their availability in facilities and making PAC Services affordable to patients.
Education to patients on how to seek proper care when seeking abortion services and counselling to patients
Employ more staffs
Encourage women to avoid untrained health providers
Equipments
Expand infrastructure especially In patient services.
Financing (reduction in costs),sensitisation of all healthcare workers
Follow-up on post abortion patients. Need for guidelines on under age For emergencies on pts with rare blood groups to be conspired in emergency response Health education to women on abortion and its complications Subsidise post abortion care
HAVE MORE OUTREACHES ON PAC AND COMMUNITY AWARENESS
Have a clinic specifically for PAC patients
Have a functional ambulance stationed at the facility 24/7 to respond to emergencies immediately. The facility has an ambulance however it is stationed at the Emergency Operation Centre.so incase of an emergency the incharge has to call and w
Have a medical unit for post abortion cases
Have a resident oby/ gyn
Have a theatre for complicated post abortion care
Have a trained specialist for provision of PAC services
Have blood transfusion equipment, supply of PAC equipment to the facility
Have increased supply of intravenous fluids
Have insurance cover for the PAC Services too
Have logbook for PAC patients for easy follow up Should have a specific unit for post arbotion care to handle PAC Patients Have specific registered health care workers handling PAC cases Have a general ward for pac patients for those who can't
Have more examination lights
Have more people trained on D&C
Have proper means of transport I,e ambulance
Have theatre for mva procedure
Health education in the community
Healthcare providers willingness to perform the procedure,Sensitization on PAC to lower facility on,proper referrals channel for these patients
Hospital to be operational 24 hours
If PAC Services can be covered by NHIF so that we can be able to attend to patients without necessarily referring them.
Improve on documentation of PAC patients in the facility
Improve on patients Follow-up
Improved referral protocols at higher level facilities
Increase number of staff
Integration of services in one place
Linking back patients to the community to make it comprehensive care.
Lower facilities to be equipped with packed cells (blood for transfusion) so as to be able to manage cases of excessive bleeding before referring a patient to a higher facility for completion of treatment. Health education on the benefits of AÃ
MORE SUPPORTIVE TRAININGS AND UPDATES
Make PAC Services as an outpatient service.
Make the procedure more of an outpatient than inpatient, this can be achieved through comprehensive PAC trainings. Educate the community on dangers of induction and the signs if abortion. Provision of combipacks and misoprostols.
Management to Reduce the costs of PAC services.
Management to set aside funding through partnerships to help PAC patients
Mentorship
NHIF to cover PAC cases. Currently doesn't cover PAC even after miscarriage
Need a medical doctor to handle abortion complications at the facility
Need for a blood bank
Need for more blood for transfusion, availability of lab works
Need more blood products for transfusion
Offer training to lower level facilities staff
Operationalize the theatre
Portable lamp for examination should be availed
Prompt diagnosis
Provide more sanitary towels and kits
Provide training for post-abortion care methods
Provide training to healthcare workers on comprehensive PAC Provided of commodities such as oxytocin Expand on the facility infrastructure
Providing more information to the women during our outreach programmes
Provision of 24hours PAC patients
Provision of MVA kit, supply of commodities for PAC such as Misoprostal
Provision of PAC data entry tool
Provision of on-the-job-training (OJT) on PAC, Provision of PAC drugs such as Cytotec and other antibiotics
Provision of psychosocial counselling
Provision of psychosocial counselling .
Provision of ultrasound equipment
Provision of uteretonics in enough supply, providers training on attitude towards patients, ammendment of national policies to allow safe abortions so that complications arising do not occur due to backdoor or unsafe abortions,
Public Sensitization about Abortion Complications and PAC Services
Public health education
REDUCE THE COST OF THE PROCEDURE AND MEDICATION
Reduce cost of PAC Services
Reduction in costs for MVA,D&C
Sensitisation on abortion care to healthcare workers
Sensitisation on safe abortion
Sensitised the community about Abortion and postabortion care.
Sensitization about the service
Sensitization of community members to get services in safe areas
Sensitization of community on PAC
Sensitization of the community about PAC
Sensitization of the community on safe abortion
Sensitization of the community that the facility offers PAC services.
Sensitization on good follow up on clients.
Sensitization on post abortion care I.e. print shirts to health providers for PAC
Sensitization on severity of complications on abortion and encourage women/girls/mothers to visit facilities , legalise abortion to reduce morbidity rates
Sensitization on the health providers to change their attitude on PAC services
Sensitization to community on PAC services, have a law backing up the health provider on legal TOPs
Sensitization to community on availability of PAC services to the facility
Sensitize stakeholders on the services we offer.Most people are not aware of the facility and the services they offer
Separate mva rooms not share with maternity ,community engages sensitization with health workers ,acceptance of workers of the services
Service cost of the services of PAC
Should be made to be affordable
Sonagrapher machines to be available
Specific PAC CLINICS for adolescents to be constructed
Stardization of antibiotic prophylaxis to use only one drug
Sterility has to be improved in the facility
Stop victimising clinician, more supplies, PAC provers to have licences.
Supply of PAC Equipment and drugs
Supply of drugs for medical abortion
Support for psychologist to be free
Systematic management of postabortion patients
TO REDUCE THE COST OF PAC SERVICES IN THE FACILITY IF POSSIBLE
TRAIN MORE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS ON HOW TO HANDLE PAC PATIENTS
Talk to the management on providing post abortion care using different methods
Teach them about cmes
The facility is jn need of a residential gynae
The facility is understaffed
The facility need a resident gynae/ward
The facility needs a resident gynae
The government to offer the facility all family planning methods to PAC patients at all times
The management should allow all cases to be treated at the facility and not only orthopaedic cases.
Theatre for doing MVA
To be equiped on more knowledge on PAC through the comprehensive training
To have special unit for pac
Train community on PAC stigma preventing
Train staff on administration of oxytocin
Training in all cadres
Training of health care workers on comprehensive PAC and other reproductive health related courses Facility to be provided with adequate equipment and commodities.
Training the MCH Level on danger signs of pregnancies to encourage early seeking of services
Training to the staff and bring more trained personnel, proper health awareness to community so that women can go where they get proper care
Trainings on the staff to accept PAC services since most don't want to perform the practises
Triage and prioritising; more counselling to be done
We need an obstetrician at the facility; Facilities such as Marie stopes should be located at Mwatate;Post abortion services should be absolutely free at the facility
Workshop on update of health care providers Community education on the importance of coming to facilities for PAC treatment
You have not received any Pac clients to know of gaps or chaĺlanges that could be improved on
room for MVA it's done Clinical officers out patient rooms, recovery for pac patients
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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