Lira. As most women were celebrating Christmas with their families, nurses at Lira Regional Referral Hospital worked throughout Friday to bring life and save mothers.
The nurses said they did not regret working on Christmas Day. Lira Hospital’s nursing officer attached to the maternity ward, Ms Elizabeth Birungi, said 11 children, six male and five female were delivered on Christmas Day. There were nine normal deliveries and two cesarean sections.
There were two qualified nurses and four nursing students on duty on Friday. “For us we do not have holidays. Once you are on duty, you are on duty. After all it was a midwife who delivered Jesus,” Birungi said.
Dozens of women from Lango sub-region delivered their babies on Christmas day just like Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ the saviour, whose birth is celebrated annually by Christians worldwide.
The women withstood labour pain to bring life which was thereafter celebrated by their respective families. The screams in the labour suit was a confirmation that delivery is a matter of life and death. Fear of labour pain is one of the most important reasons that make women go for cesarean section, according to nurses.
Mothers who talked to Daily Monitor said that bitter memories of previous pregnancies increases the labour pain while pleasure, relaxation and normal pregnancy can decrease it.
However, they said they did not regret staying in the labour ward when others were celebrating Christmas.
A 23-year-old mother-to-be and a resident of Barr Sub-county in Lira, Ms Patricia Akor, who went to the facility on Tuesday, said Christmas was nothing to her.
“I am not minding about what is happening outside. My prayer is that I deliver normally,” she said.
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