During the study period, 2798 deliveries were recorded.
There was 119 cases of premature rupture of fetal
membranes, out of which 94 were cases of preterm
premature rupture of membranes, while 25 were cases of
term premature rupture of membranes. This showed an
incidence of 4.2% for premature rupture of membranes in
general and 3.3% for preterm premature rupture of
membranes of all deliveries. The case notes of 10 patients
could not be traced. While the case note of another 5
unbooked patients had scanty information documented in
them and were removed from the analysis leaving a total
of 79 patients out of the 94 that met the criteria for
preterm premature rupture of membranes, for analysis and
evaluation.morbidity. A total of 16 cases (20%) had complications
which led to prolonged hospital stay. 11 women out of the
16 patients were febrile and 7 women out of the 11
women that had febrile illness had secondary postpartum
haemorrhage (PPH) and one out of this patients had total