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Burn injuries during the puerperium in Zaria, Nigeria

O A Mabogunje1

  • 1Department of Surgery, Ahmadu Bello University Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria.

International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics: the Official Organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
|October 1, 1989
PubMed

Of the 35 women who sustained burn injuries during the puerperium in Zaria, 31 had practised ritual hot baths or "Wankan-jego" which caused severe scalds. Five of the women also developed peripartum cardiac failure. Two died. Three of the newborns also died partly as a result of the mothers' illness. Formal education and general economic development would help in eliminating this preventable source of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality.

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