Births safer thanks to 'balloon' innovation stopping excessive bleeding

19 May 2019 - 00:00
By SIPOKAZI FOKAZI

A Cape Town gynaecologist has made giving birth a little safer by turning a cheap surgical glove into a device that stops excessive post-birth bleeding.

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