Health workers without midwifery skills can inject oxytocin toprevent bleeding
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
Community health officers (health workers who are not trained midwives) can safely give injections of the drug oxytocin to prevent severe bleeding after delivery (postpartum hemorrhage) when attending home births in rural areas of Ghana, according to a study by US and Ghanaian researchers.