Providing a comprehensive package of maternal and newborn care that includes antenatal, delivery, postpartum and
postabortion services is costly and can pose a challenge for low and middle-income countries.
For example, to reduce maternal mortality, it is not enough to provide antenatal attention, safe delivery and postnatal care; women also need access to safe, legal and affordable abortion services and
postabortion care.
They then reviewed all call-back logs for which patients called the facility
postabortion and were referred to an ED or hospital.
(6-8) In these countries, the program supports cost-effective interventions such as vaccines; safe water, sanitation and hygiene; nutritional supplements; family planning information and counseling;
postabortion care; and training for frontline health workers on basic prevention, treatment and management of maternal and child illnesses.
Estimating Abortion Incidence Among Adolescents and Differences In
Postabortion Care by Age: A Cross-Sectional Study of
Postabortion Care Patients in Uganda Elizabeth A.
The report recommended the government provide "access to safe abortion services and
postabortion care for adolescents, ensuring that their opinions are always heard and duly taken into account as part of the process of decision making." Please Note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright
(16) Leaving BV untreated can also lead to increased reproductive and obstetric risks such as preterm birth, intrauterine infections, and postpartum and
postabortion endometritis.
In this issue of International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Akinrinola Bankole and colleagues follow up on previously published estimates of the annual numbers of induced abortions and related complications in the DRC's capital of Kinshasa with the first comprehensive assessment of the severity and treatment of such complications among women seeking
postabortion care at Kinshasa health facilities in 2016.
The doctors said that most of the clients do not face
postabortion complications either from pills or operations.
Recent studies have documented the continued importance of
postabortion hemorrhage; a conservative estimate of the incidence of hemorrhage of clinical consideration is approximately 1% of procedures [5, 6].
In some developing countries, substandard
postabortion services have been reported by patients seeking
postabortion care (PAC) [5].
In 2014, almost three-fourths of facilities that could potentially provide abortions or
postabortion care did so, including 67% of the 2,600 public health centers nationwide, 80% of the 1,300 private or nongovernmental organization (NGO) facilities, and 98% of the 120 public hospitals provide abortion and
postabortion care in Ethiopia [2].