Date: Friday 24th of October, 2008
Time: 8 – 9am
Presenter: Dr. A. Malagisa and Team (Obstetrics & Gynaecology Dept)
Topic: Summary of O&G Statistics for the last 4 years
Venue: Jessie Griffiths Hall (Hospital Mess)

Summary:

The statistics have indicated that the services we provide have improved a lot. This may be due to the increased number of hard working staff. For example, 82% of mothers who delivered at Goroka General Hospital are booked, following that the still birth rates have reduced from 30.2 in 2004 to 21.9 per 1000 total births. Amazingly, the rate of instrument delivery is the same as caesarean sections at 5.1%. This means that the staff do not take short cuts into doing caesarean sections but go the harder way. The leading cause of maternal death was puerperal sepsis from septic abortion. The practice of illegal abortion by unqualified staff or traditional healers is quiet common in Goroka. The dilemma of wether abortion should be legalised or not was also discussed in the PNG medical symposium in Rabaul. However, a rigid conclusion was not reached yet. Comparing our centres with other centres and Port Moresby, we firstly realized that our statistics are up to date and our performance is supreme, only next to Port Morsby General Hospital. We would like to comment our O&G staff, especially Dr. Malagisa and his team for the tremendous efforts put in to improve the services.