All Presidents
FIGO Member Societies
30th April 2012
Dear Colleagues,
Re: Guidelines on post-partum haemorrhage
The FIGO Committee for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health has just published guidelines on post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) entitled “Prevention and treatment of PPH in Low Resource Countries” that will appear in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics in May 2012.
FIGO would ask that you circulate a copy of the guidelines, a copy of which you will find attached, to all your members and consider having your society endorse them. It would be very helpful if you could let us know how and when you will distribute them in your country.
Post-partum haemorrhage is the single largest cause of maternal mortality in the world. Working together we can make a huge difference by adopting and implementing these guidelines wherever women give birth. You can work on posting the treatment diagrams in the document.
FIGO would be pleased if you would present the guidelines at your national meetings and can offer advice if you would like international faculty to participate.
Let us join together and reduce maternal mortality due to post-partum haemorrhage.
Yours Sincerely,
Gamal Serour
President
Andre Lalonde
Chair – Committee for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health