Speaking to members of parliament on the safe abortion bill which was levied at parliament for consultation and education, Dr. Roland Williamson Taylor in his presentation discussed two main methods on safe abortion, adding that there are two methods the surgical methods\u00a0 and the medical methods<\/p>\n
The surgical method which ranging up to twelve and fourteen weeks and it is at this point that they are now using the Manual Vacuum\u00a0 Aspiration\u00a0 and the Electric\u00a0 Vacuum\u00a0 Aspiration maintaining that the Dilatation and Evacuation method<\/p>\n
The Medical Abortion\u00a0 which is up to nine weeks\u00a0 their by using the Mifepristone and Misoprostol but when Mifepristone is not available you can use the Misoprostol alone<\/p>\n
Dr, Taylor also ask question as to whether the Health system equipped to to implement the Abortion Bill.\u00a0 One of the issues is regarded due to the prevalence of women needing post Abortion care as a result of unsafe abortion, adding that the Ministry of Health and Sanitation has developed\u00a0 technical guidelines disclosing that our health system is already dealing with\u00a0 thousand of women in Sierra Leone who seek treatment for complications from unsafe abortion performed outside the health facilities putting large burden on our health system<\/p>\n
He disclosed that in 2013 the Ministry of Health reported\u00a0 almost 20 percent of obstetric\u00a0 complications admissions were for abortion complications <\/strong><\/p>\n Adding that the W.H.O guidance strongly recommends task sharing for abortion and contraception\u00a0 it is safe , effective .<\/p>\n Women often prefer midlevel providers in his call to action he commended Hon Isata Kabia\u00a0\u00a0who brought\u00a0 the safe abortion bill in 2015 to parliament forwarded as a private members bill thereby recognizing the important benefit it could bring to the women of Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n By Abdulai Bangura<\/em><\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speaking to members of parliament on the safe abortion bill which was levied at parliament for consultation and education, Dr. Roland Williamson Taylor in his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,10],"tags":[20838,20930],"class_list":["post-77282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-health","tag-abortion-bill","tag-marie-stopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}