The Greater Accra Region recorded 170 maternal deaths in 2023, with 20 per cent due to eclampsia, Dr Akosua Agyeiwaa Owusu-Sarpong, the Regional Director of Health Services, said on Thursday.
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Royal Women s Hospital
Making the case for more hospitals to adopt life-saving pre-eclampsia prediction test
PHOTO: Katie James lost her daughter Ivy due to pre-eclampsia. Thanks to the Women’s care and expertise in pre-eclampsia, she and husband Stewart went on to have two further children after Ivy.
A test predicting the potentially fatal pregnancy condition, pre-eclampsia, has reached a milestone in its use at the Royal Women’s Hospital – the first hospital in Australia to study and rollout use of the test.
The Pre-eclampsia Ratio Test – known as the PERT test – has now been completed 5,000 times for 3,000 patients at the hospital. As well as quickly diagnosing the condition by measuring proteins in the blood, it predicts whether or not these women are going to develop pre-eclampsia in the subsequent four weeks.