Turning the Tide: New drug formulation saves mothers from postpartum hemorrhage

Gynecologist examines a pregnant woman with stethoscope. (Courtesy/Getty Images)

As long as she can remember, Halima Mohammed from Garissa County always experienced life-threatening excessive bleeding after delivering all her children.

Bleeding, sometimes to the point of needing transfusion, had been the case for all her four children, except her youngest son thanks the intervention of a Heat Stable Carbetocin (HSC), a medication that prevents excessive bleeding.