As long as she can remember, Halima Mohammed from Garissa County always experienced life-threatening excessive bleeding after delivering all her children.
Bleeding, sometimes to the point of needing transfusion, had been the case for all her four children, except her youngest son thanks the intervention of a Heat Stable Carbetocin (HSC), a medication that prevents excessive bleeding.
It does not require refrigeration and remains potent for at least three years if stored at 30 degrees Celsius and 75 per cent relative humidity. Halima recounts how the delivery of her now four-year-old son at the Garissa County Referral Hospital was a smooth one unlike the other births. "The nurse explained to me about this new medicine and helped me deliver safely," says Halima. Heat Stable Carbetocin is a uterotonic, a dose for contracting the womb to stop bleeding.
It is effective in preventing postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) in vaginal and caesarean deliveries. .Keep ReadingUnderstanding postpartum haemorrhageHow postpartum haemorrhage risk is killing joy of motherhoodMakueni's lifesaving solution stops maternal mortalityPostpartum hemorrhage in which women bleed uncontrollably after childbirth, is the deadliest of all complications during childbirth.
