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Why should you be within 60 minutes of a hospital or first aid centre when you do the abortion?

 

It is absolutely necessary to be within one hour of help, in case you lose too much blood. This is also the case when a woman has a miscarriage or gives birth. It is not necessary for you to live in an urban area to do a medical abortion. Almost all areas with internet access will also have a basic first aid centre nearby.
Hospitals and first aide centres must have basic medical equipment and staff. This equipment and expertise is the same that is required to care for women who have complications related to miscarriage or birth.

More scientific information:

“Medical abortions can be used safely in even the most basic settings, as long as back-up care is available to treat women who experience complications or method failure. The techniques typically employed to manage such complications are similar to those used to manage spontaneous abortion. Therefore, established services for routine elective surgical abortion are a not a prerequisite for introducing medical abortion into a given setting.6
“A full surgical abortion service is not necessary in order to provide medical abortion; however, back-up with vacuum aspiration should be available if and as required." 4  Vacuum aspiration can be done without electricity, using a manual vacuum aspirator. Thus, electricity is not required to help women with complications.

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