Ebedi told reporters that the caesarean sessions were undertaken to save the lives of the mothers.
``It is usually the last option, especially during prolonged labour and threat to life,’’ he said, and promised improved ante-natal services to pregnant women who visited the hospital.
The CMD said that the hospital had handled some 5,000 ante-natal cases this year compared to between 3,000 and 4,000 cases recorded in 2011.
He attributed the increase to a modern ultra sound equipment, stressing that more patients came to the hospital to access the facility.
Ebedi said the hospital had provided more facilities to handle surgical cases in order to avoid referring patients to other hospitals.
``Bwari has a peculiar problem; the people are poor they cannot afford the kind of surgeries we would have loved to perform,'' he added.
He said the hospital had converted the morgue to a temporary physiotherapy unit because it had no equipment to carry out mortuary services and appealed to the FCT authority to provide more physiotherapy equipment.
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