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BY: Graphic reporters
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As Ghanaians celebrated the Christmas and New Year festivities, thankful for surviving a rather challenging year that was characterised by the impact of the COVID-19, it was double joy for many families who welcomed new additions to their families.
A total of 108 babies were delivered in nine hospitals in five regions.
Of the number, 44 were males and 64, females.
Apart from the mothers who were delivered of their babies through Caesarean section (CS) and had to be monitored at the hospitals, all the other mothers and their babies were discharged a day after delivery.
A Caesarean section is a surgical procedure by which a baby is delivered through an incision in the mother s abdomen, often performed because vaginal delivery would put the baby or mother at risk.
More women, who give birth at the Bono Regional Hospital in Sunyani, prefer Caesarean Section (CS) to normal deliveries, Mrs Susan Tiwaa, the Midwife in-charge of Maternity at the Regional hospital, has said. She said the women were of the view that CS was the safest and easiest way to be delivered of their babies. She said out of the nine babies born on December 31, 2020 at the facility, six of them were done through CS. The babies comprise five girls and four boys with their body weights ranging between 1.9 and 3.5 kilograms. However, Mrs Tiwaa told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the five babies born at the facility on January 1, 2020 were through normal deliveries.