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THE OB-Gynecology department of the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) has stopped
offering child birth services since Feb. 5 as ordered by Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña.
However, a staff of the city-ran hospital, who requested anonymity, said they were still
forced to accommodate “high-risk” patients, who were about to give birth and could no
longer be referred to other hospitals.
On normal days, the 25-bed maternity ward located at the hospital's 3rd floor was always
filled beyond its capacity as well as the 17-bed maternity ward on the fourth floor.
Yesterday, the hospital only had four admissions for child birth.
“We already refused to accept cases that can still be referred to other hospitals. Other
patients have also ceased coming to us after they heard media reports about the mayor's
announcement to dissolve the OB-Gynecology department,” the staff said.
The mayor said he wanted to expand the operations of the satellite hospitals in the
mountain barangays like the one in Guba to address the needs of the residents there.
The city government will also help high risk patients like those who needed to undergo
Caesarean Section operation, he said.
Instead of spending much on child birth, Osmeña wanted to expand CCMC's Emergency
Room services.
Other planned changes would be in the procurement of medicines and adjustment in the
hospital management.
“One big fallacy is that the hospital should be headed by a doctor. A hospital has to be
headed by a manager. Someone who is good in cost accounting, inventory control and
cash flow analysis,” Osmeña said.
While Dr. Myrna Go remains hospital administrator, Osmeña said he wanted members of
the Mayor's Management Team (MMT) to help her.
Osmeña raised the possibility of buying imported medicines and said that he will be
sending the MMT to study the procurement process of the Local Government Units of
Bukidnon and Capiz, which he wanted to imitate.
Paternal factors and low birthweight, preterm, and small for
gestational age births: a systematic review
A gestational-age birth in relation to paternal factors was performed. Medline, Embase,
Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and bibliographies of
identified articles were searched for English-language studies. Study qualities were
assessed according to a predefined checklist. Thirty-six studies of low-to-moderate risk of
bias were reviewed for various paternal factors: age, height, weight, birthweight,
occupation, education, and alcohol use. Extreme paternal age was associated with higher
risk for LBW. Among infants who were born to tall fathers, birthweight was
approximately 125-150 g higher compared with infants who were born to short fathers.
Paternal LBW was associated with lower birthweight of the offspring. In conclusion,
paternal characteristics including age, height, and birthweight are associated with LBW.
Paternal occupational exposure and low levels of education may be associated with
LBW; however, further studies are needed.
Pregnancy: a “teachable moment” for weight control and
obesity prevention
Objective
Study Design
We identified a total of 2120 women who gave birth from 2001 to 2003
with a diagnosis of PUD during pregnancy. Then 10,600 unaffected
pregnant women were matched with cases in age and year of delivery.
Multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed for
estimation.
Results
Conclusion