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F Richard1, C Ouédraogo, V De Brouwere
1Quality and Human Resources Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. frichard@itg.be
Objective:
To assess the effects of a comprehensive intervention (staff training, equipment, internal clinical audits, cost sharing system, patients-providers meetings) in improving cesarean delivery access and quality in an urban district of Burkina Faso.
Methods:
We conducted a before-after study in the health district sector 30 in Ouagadougou between 2003 and 2006. We measured cesarean delivery quality (accessibility, diagnosis, procedure, postoperative follow-up) and maternal and neonatal health in 1371 sections.
Results:
The number of cesarean deliveries performed increased each year, from 42 in 2003 to 630 in 2006. This increase happened without increase in maternal and perinatal post-cesarean mortality (respectively 1.1% and 3.6% in 2006). The cesarean delivery rate for women of the district increased from 1.9% to 3.3% of expected births between 2003 and 2005.
Conclusion:
To improve access to quality cesarean delivery, we have shown that it was necessary to have a systemic approach combining technical, operational, sociocultural, and political factors.
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