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"Apio" and paracetamol for pain relief?
The "soothing effect" of the concoction said to be of help to women recovering from caesarean operation
GNA | Posted: Tuesday, February 28, 2006
A Ghana News Agency (GNA) story has disclosed that "some nursing mothers at the Effia Nkwanta Hospital are using a combination of "Akpeteshie" or "Apio" (local gin) and paracetamol as a pain reliever"
The GNA investigation said doctors, nurses and paramedical staff at the hospital have no idea that some women who have under gone caesarean operation are using the concoction to curb post operation pain.
Some of the women said apart from the soothing effect of the combination, it enabled them and their babies to sleep better and facilitated the discharge of waste material from their system.
One woman was reported as saying that she asked her relatives to buy her the tipple which she kept in her locker.
''To avoid detection the "Apio" is tied in transparent rubber, using the quarter size of a pint, and it is consumed nocturnally…It is good for the sore in my stomach and when other spices are added it helps boost appetite and sleep,'' she said.
In another development, the GNA report said "a lot of women are becoming stranded at the hospital due to their inability to settle their medical bills."
One woman who had already spent six weeks in the hospital after her discharge cannot afford the money to settle the bill of 1.4 million cedis.
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