BMH’s Gynaecologist Mogul Alerts over Poor Use of P2 Medicines -

By Valentine Oforo

THE gynaecologist experts at the
Benjamin Mkapa Hospital (BMH) have raised a grave concern over the growing wave
of unprofessional use of Postinor-2 (P2) medicines across the country.

Postinor-2 is an emergency
contraceptive only and the medicines have not been made for the purposes of a
regular method of contraception. It is used to prevent
pregnancy when taken within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse.

While the artificial medicines, P2,
has been specifically produced for the purpose of helping the women under
marriages, and those others legal spousal relations to manage preventing
unplanned pregnancies, the Doctors observed that the artificial medicines are
currently used vastly by students at diverse universities to cheat pregnancies.

Bad enough, the experts expressed
that the young female girls are using the medicines poorly, the unhealthier
situation which often exposes them to high health risks.

Giving an exclusive interview to
this media platform, Dr Andrew John Nyangi, the Gynaecologist at the BMH
expressed that some of the dangerous health risks that the poor users of the P2
medicines can get include experiencing miscarriages as well as disruption of
female menstrual cycle.

“The medicines are tailored to
assist the married women to prevent unplanned pregnancies within 72 hours, but
it is very unprofessional that they are currently used as the long –term way of
managing family planning,” the high-profile expert added.

In a sober way to help curtailing
the unprofessional trend, Dr Nyangi expressed the need for the health experts,
from both private and public sector to venture onto a mass awareness creation
with an eye to educate the public over the negative effects of the medicines.

“These medicines are available at
diverse medical stores across the country, and at a friendly price of at least
5000/- , make it easier for the users to purchase them,” he observed.

He urged the matured women across
the country to comply with the recommended health ways of managing family
planning and not use the otherwise unsafe ways.

The Benjamin Mkapa Hospital is a
tertiary public hospital in Dodoma, the capital city of Tanzania. It was the
second hospital in the country to perform kidney transplants but the first
to do so with an entire Tanzanian staff in 2018.