Fifteen obstetrics and gynaecologists (O and Gs) at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) have been trained to use a vacuum device known as Kiwi to conduct vaginal delivery of babies.
An obstetric and gynaecologist based in Ireland, Dr Oluwole Alabi whose company Mufam Advertising Trust Limited recommended the tool, said the device would discourage the rate hospital carry out caesarian section (CS).
According to him, the device will help to reduce child mortality because it can be used to assist women in labour deliver safely.
Alabi said the device encompasses all aspects of conventional delivery equipment. Unlike the bogus conventional machine used to induce delivery, it is portable and power-free, he added.
He said a doctor can single handedly deliver an expectant mother of a baby. “This is not so in the case of conventional delivery machine as many staff are required to operate it,” he said.
The training, he said, was important without which th mechanism may become problematic to the users and,as such and put expectant mothers and their babies in danger.
According to him, the device is easy to use and it has about 99 per cent chances of assisting women achieve vaginal delivery without complications.
This, he said, will prevent or reduce deliveries through caesarian section (CS).
The Managing Director of the company, Dr Gbenga Salau, said his organisation introduced the product into Nigeria so that expectant mothers do not die needlessly during child birth.
He said a unit of the device costs about N10,000, adding that Salau, who is the convener of the training, said the government and private organisation can buy into the programme.


Culled: http://www.nursingworldnigeria.com/2016/02/gynaecologists-learn-new-delivery-technique

New? I used this in 2007

New I used it in 2014.