As the Pakistani government announced the reopening of schools in September, parents’ anxiety about children getting infected with Covid-19 took a sharp hike. Parents, guardians and even teachers fear that it may be too soon to reopen schools after they were shut in the early days of the pandemic. Experts from the Aga Khan University Hospital’s Children’s Hospital connected to the audience through a Facebook Live Session on 11 September to address safety and precautionary guidelines and other frequently asked questions.

Professor Temmerman, Chair at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Director of the East Africa Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, and Dr Kinuthia, consultant obstetrician gynaecologist at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, write that sometimes during the last stages of pregnancy, some mothers may find that a baby is yet to turn head-down causing panic and confusion. Commonly referred to as breech birth presentation, this occurs in about 3 to 4% of pregnancies at the time of delivery. Breech presentation is primarily a chance occurrence but in up to 15% of cases, it may be due to foetal, maternal or placental abnormalities.