Medical Xpress July 31, 2025
For years, frontline nurses at community-based health planning services have been forced to improvise with limited resources, no labs, no ultrasound machines, and sometimes no electricity.
When complications arose, patients needed to travel to better-equipped hospitals, often several kilometers away.
“We see cases where pregnant women are transported on bicycles or motorbikes to reach care,” says Emmanuel Ahene, a medical consultant CHPS-community-based health planning service. “It’s not uncommon.”
The statistics paint a stark picture—across four northern districts only 6% of facilities could provide basic emergency pregnancy care, with just 3% offering comprehensive services.
Among women who died or nearly died during childbirth, 39% delivered at facilities unequipped for emergencies.
Now, researchers at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)...
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