A few days ago, Dr. Solveig Groß, gynaecologist, returned from her new assignment at St. Walburg's Hospital in Tanzania. She had been supporting the obstetrics team since the beginning of December and, surprisingly, far more twins were delivered during these weeks than usual. These included a number of breech deliveries and therefore all complex and risky cases, but fortunately all spontaneous births. Dr. Kasoga, the medical director of the hospital and himself a gynaecologist, is very concerned about the quality of obstetrics in order to identify high-risk pregnancies directly in the villages through good birth preparation, including as part of the Community Health Project's preventive examinations, and to take the right measures.

This year, Dr. Kasoga conducted an interesting study and published it on December 16, 2024 in the "African Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health". It shows that for women with twin pregnancies, which are high-risk pregnancies per se, as well as for women from remote villages who have to walk many hours to the hospital when the birth is due, and of course for all women with difficult pregnancies, coming to the hospital days before the onset of labor and staying in the boarding house until the birth had a measurable positive effect, so that they have a short way to the delivery room and receive professional obstetric care immediately. In this way, the number of critical birth outcomes is significantly reduced. A big step towards counteracting the still very high mother-child mortality rate during childbirth in Tanzania.