无痛分娩来了! 全国开展分娩镇痛试点!
China's National Health Commission has released a work plan for the nationwide promotion of pain relief during labor and delivery. The three-year plan aims to make fewer mothers turn to C-sections to escape unbearable labor pain, thus increasing rates of natural childbirth and lowering rates of cesarean delivery. The country's lack of pain-free natural labor was brought into the spotlight in August last year, when a 26-year-old pregnant woman in Yulin, Shaanxi, jumped to her death in a maternity ward partly because she was in unbearable pain. A number of hospitals will be chosen around the country to pilot labor pain relief services between 2018 and 2020, before they are widely promoted, according to the work plan. By the end of 2020, more than 40% of all deliveries in the pilot hospitals will be completed with the help of spinal or epidural anesthesia, or a combination of both. Painless delivery is yet to become common in China due to several factors, including a shortage of anesthetists at hospitals and widespread myths surrounding labor pain relief methods. The commission also released two norms attached to the work plan, one regarding labor pain relief operation procedures and the other in analgesia technical management. |