HEALTH experts in the country are vouching for the introduction of clinical audits in all health facilities as a measure to reduce maternal and child deaths. The World Lung Foundation (WLF) Project Director, Prof Staffan Bergstrom, told the 'Daily News on Saturday' that the introduction of these audits in the health centres they operate have helped check on unjustified C-Section operations.
"Clinical audit demands an exemplary organisation of the labour ward book and of all patient's case notes and records, above all partograms and theatre notes on anaesthesia and surgery, if the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare ensured this is done, a lot can be achieved," he said. Prof Bergstrom said that clinical audit primarily aims at detecting mismanagement and degree of avoiding adverse outcomes of clinical management.
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