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"WE BELIEVE IN BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION THROUGH EDUCATION AND THE PROVISION OF A WIDE CHOICE OF CONTRACEPTIVES," SHE SAID.
DIFFERENT HEALTH BACKGROUNDS, AND
WITH PARTICIPANTS COMING FROM COUNTRIES WITH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS, DIVERSE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL VARYING HEALTH STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS, LADY WILSON SAID THE CONGRESS WAS THE RIGHT FORUM FOR DISCUSSIONS, EXCHANGE OF IDEAS SHARING OF EXPERIENCE.
TURNING TO MATERNAL
MODERN OBSTETRIC PRACTICE,
AND
SERVICES, LADY WILSON NOTED THAT WITH
EVERY PREGNANCY WOULD BE EXPECTED TO
RESULT IN THE DELIVERY OF A NORMAL AND HEALTHY BABY BY A HEALTHY MOTHER.
"THIS IS THE CASE IN PLACES LIKE HONG KONG WHERE THE PERINATAL MORTALITY RATE IS EIGHT IN EVERY 1,000, AND THE MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE IS FIVE IN EVERY 100,000," SHE SAID.
HOWEVER, THERE WERE VILLAGES IN THE ASIAN AND OCEANIC AREAS WHERE ONE OUT OF EVERY 200 MOTHERS DIED AS A RESULT OF CHILDBIRTH. AND NEWBORN BABIES DIED AS A RESULT OF NEONATAL TETANUS OR OTHER FORMS OF INFECTION.
REFERRING ΤΟ THE USE OF PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS ΤΟ IDENTIFY ABNORMAL FETUSES, LADY WILSON POINTED OUT THAT MEDICAL SCIENCE HAD PROGRESSED SO FAST THAT THE AIM OF PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS SHOULD BE TO IDENTIFY THE FETUSES THAT COULD BE GIVEN TREATMENT BEFORE BIRTH, TO ENSURE THAT PROPER PERINATAL MANAGEMENT COULD BE PLANNED WITH NEONATAL PAEDIATRICIAN BEFORE DELIVERY.
OR
THE
"IT IS INDEED HEARTENING TO NOTE THAT A WEALTH OF RESEARCH ON PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS IS BEING CONDUCTED IN THIS AREA, SHE SAID
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"CHILDLESS COUPLES ARE ALSO ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM THE IMMENSE AMOUNT OF RESEARCH GOING ON, BUT HERE, TOO. ETHICS AND RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES DIFFER WIDELY, SHE SAID, ADDING THAT A COMMITTEE HAD JUST BEEN ESTABLISHED IN HONG KONG TO LOOK INTO THESE ISSUES.
TURNING TO THE TREATMENT OF CANCER, LADY WILSON SAID WITH GYNAECOLOGISTS LEADING THE FIELD IN EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER BY THE USE OF "PAP SMEAR", POPULATION SCREENING PROGRAMMES HAD PROVED TO BE EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE IN DECREASING THE INCIDENT, AS WELL AS THE SEVERITY, OF CANCER OF THE CERVIX.
"SUCH SCREENING PROGRAMMES
SHOULD BE INSTITUTED IN ALL COMMUNITIES IF RESOURCES SO PERMIT, SHE SAID.
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LADY WILSON ALSO PRAISED THE OBSTETRICIANS WHO HAD SHOWN THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ROUTE OF TRANSMISSION OF HEPATITIS B WAS FROM THE PREGNANT MOTHER TO THE NEWBORN BABY, AND THAT BABIES AT RISK COULD BE IDENTIFIED BY SCREENING THE MOTHERS SO THAT THE BABIES BE PROTECTED BY IMMUNIZATION IMMEDIATELY AFTER BIRTH.
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FINALLY, STRESSING THE IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN, SHE SAID: "A HEALTHY MOTHER AND WIFE IS A VALUABLE THE WELL-BEING OF THE FAMILY, AND INDIRECTLY TO THE IN THE GENERATIONS TO COME.
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