NHH Obstetrical / Gynecological services growing to meeting local need
Minimally invasive laparoscopic surgeries now being performed with arrival of new expertise, equipment - births also on the rise.
Almost a year and a half after welcoming a third Obstetrician/Gynecologist to the team, Northumberland Hills Hospital is already seeing evidence of the positive impact.
Dr. Nasser Abu Awad arrived in the fall of 2016, bringing additional local capacity for pregnancy care, delivery and infertility expertise as well as new expertise in minimally invasive laparoscopic gynecological surgery, a service not previously offered at NHH.
Dr. Abu Awad joined Dr. Michael Green and Dr. Asiya Hameed, bringing to three the number of Obstetrician/Gynecologists active at NHH.
Supported by the Obstetrician/Gynecologists as well as family physicians and a growing network of local midwives, more women are seeking to deliver in NHH’s comfortable, family-friendly birthing suite. Births are on track to increase again this fiscal year, building further on the increase recorded last year at March 31st, 2017. Births have increased steadily at NHH from 495 in 2015/16, to 540 in 2016/17 with 552 anticipated by the end of the current fiscal year on March 31, 2018.