Maternal health experts have urged the National Health Insurance Authority and Health Maintenance Organisations to adjust the minimum number of sonography that pregnant women are entitled to more than two.
According to experts, the two basic scans a pregnant woman is entitled to are one done around the 12th week to estimate the date of delivery and the next at about 20 weeks which is known as the anomaly scan., the experts a consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Dr. Abiodun Adeniran, and Dr. Samuel Ilikannu said women mustn’t skip the scans.
“There are so many other reasons why you may ask a woman to do an additional scan. For example, if a woman is bleeding, it is an indication for an ultrasound scan. Apart from pregnancies that may require more scans to be done, he said, twin pregnancies often require ultrasound scans more frequently because “there are other complications that may happen with twin pregnancy that you need to be able to monitor.”
“We are a low-income country, not everyone can afford to do scans. The other day I had to assist a pregnant woman I have been asking to do a scan for the past two months financially to do a scan because she didn’t have money and according to her, her family has to eat first before she does any scan.”
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