Faisalabad flying squad service

ABSTRACT

Faisalabad Flying Squad Service was started to reduce maternal/foetal mortality and morbidity. Flying Squad answered its first call on 15-01-1989 for antepartum haemorrhage and since then has travelled 157 k.m. attending to 11 calls for help. Since its inception, no call has gone unanswered. There have been 4 calls for APH, 4 for PPH, one call premature labour and one call for retained placenta. Most of the calls came in the evening and help was asked by Traditional Birth Attendents [TBAs] Lady Health Visitors [LHVs]. No patient was dead at the time of arrival and all tits were discharged from hospital in satisfactory condition. Out of 10 cases, one patient of haemorrhage was so collapsed that venesection was done at home for initial resuscitation. She was treated for acute cortical necrosis with peritoneal dialysis and survived