Photo of the Week: Neonatal Hospital Ward in India
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By Ian Hurley
on February 3, 2012
Childbirth Care, Postnatal Care
India
Photo: Ritam Banerjee/Getty Images for Save the Children
A neonatal nurse attends to a newborn in the Neonatal Ward of Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital in Mumbai, India.
In India almost one million babies die in their first month of life. Internationally, there is an acute shortage of neonatal nurses and particular in resource-limited countries where there is a desperate need for accredited training in advanced neonatal nursing practice.
This past summer, Gary Darmstadt and a team of leading newborn and maternal health experts created a blog post series about innovations in newborn and maternal health in India.
Produced through a collaboration between Impatient Optimists (the blog of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and the Healthy Newborn Network (HNN) supported by Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives program, the series aimed to explore maternal and newborn health in the context of its recent policy developments and to outline the vision and opportunities for innovation from several programs working towards improving maternal and child health in India.
We encourage you to take a look at the series as well visit our India page as there is a host of important news stories and recent reports.
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