Baby steps to cutting the NHS Scotland's carbon footprint
On the day the Scottish government published its strategy for, baby Airlie Autumn Lavery was taking her first breaths in the labour ward of St John's hospital in Livingston.
But midwives in NHS Lothian are using a new machine, developed in Sweden, to destroy the nitrous oxide and convert it back into harmless gases. Gas and air is the most popular type of pain relief in childbirth, but senior charge midwife Jane Taylor says most people don't realise the harm it does. This maternity unit is the only one in Scotland, and the second in the UK, to trial the technology. The hope is that it will be more widely used in future.Midwife Jane Taylor says most people don't realise the environmental harm that gas and air does
"Almost everything we put into the patient has to be exhaled and dealt with at the end of the procedure," he says.
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