Brazilian government stimulates humanized delivery

Brazil is a “champion” in surgical deliveries. In private hospitals, the surgical delivery rate is of almost 90% of the total number of births. In public hospitals, it ranges from 40% to 50%. To change this habit and to recover the use of natural labour, the Brazilian government has determined changes in obstetric and neonatal assistance, stimulating the humanized delivery.

The main changes are: allowing the company of someone chosen by the woman during reception, labour, delivery and immediate post-delivery; granting access to non-pharmaceutical and non-invasive methods to ease the pain and stimulate the physiological evolution during labour; making it possible that the clinical periods of delivery be assisted in the same environment; guaranteeing the woman the choice between the various positions of labour, as long as there are no clinical obstacles, among others.

Industry ready
When determining that every healthcare services institution must count on rooms for normal deliveries, the new resolution creates a demand for delivery beds, which the Brazilian industry is ready to supply.

Fanem, leading company in neonatology equipment, for instance, has a bed for humanized delivery that, besides supplying the Brazilian market, has been exported for 3 years now for the Arab, Latin American and African markets.

That is the model 7097, the only one suitable for pre-delivery, delivery and post-delivery and that presents items that make the labour easier for the woman in labour and for the professionals. “The first model of this bed was developed by Fanem almost ten years ago, anticipating the world philosophy of humanization”, highlights the entrepreneur Marlene Schmidt Rodrigues, Fanem’s executive director.