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Make Magnesium Sulphate Widely Available to Prevent Eclampsia Deaths – NGO
October 18, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Women Health News
But mothers continue to die – for lack of magnesium sulphate -- a safe, effective and inexpensive drug, says EngenderHealth, an international reproductive health organization.
The drug could prevent deadly complications arising from pre-eclampsia, a condition which sees rapid elevation of blood pressure.
Pre-eclampsia, when left untreated, can lead to seizures (eclampsia), kidney and liver damage, and ultimately, death. Approximately 63,000 pregnant women die every year because of eclampsia and severe pre-eclampsia, which are also associated with a higher risk of newborn death. Of course most of these deaths take place in the developing world.
Based on the latest scientific evidence, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended magnesium sulfate as the most effective, safe, and low-cost medication to treat eclampsia and pre-eclampsia. While magnesium sulfate has been the standard treatment in the developed world for the past 20 years, less-effective and riskier medications (such as diazepam and phenytoin) are still widely used for these conditions in most developing countries. This is yet another example of the enormous disparity in the quality of maternal health care between industrialized and poor nations, notes EngenderHealth.
Earlier this year, in response to this issue, the NGO and the University of Oxford brought together leading scientists, advocates, researchers, and representatives of the WHO, UNICEF, United Nations agencies, and national ministries of health from around the world to identify country-specific barriers to the availability and use of the drug, as well as factors that facilitate its utilization in settings where magnesium sulfate is not the treatment of choice within public health systems.
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sharadsoni(Guest)
10/13/2011
Kindly let me know from where I can purchase magnisium sulphate in BHILAI-DURG chhatisgarh. sonisharad19@gmail.com
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