Kangaroo Mother Care
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My first contact with Save the Children was in 2008, just after I obtained my fellowship in pediatrics from the National Post-Graduate Medical College of Nigeria. I was in Katsina – and one of only two pediatricians in that city – when Save the Children invited me for training on...
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“We feel so proud and happy about what we have become. We manage our babies very well and discharge them alive. We no longer run after the doctors except when babies present with advanced complications,” says Sr Gorret Mukhaye, a registered midwife at Kiryandongo Hospital in the Kiryandongo District of...
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HNN Team
As the Busoga Bureau Chief for the Uganda Radio Network (URN), I have long had a passion for health journalism. In early 2015 I traveled with Save the Children to the Hoima Regional Referral Hospital to learn about its kangaroo mother care (KMC) program. Although I had written about KMC,...
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HNN Team
I stepped into the neonatal intensive care unit, a fresh slathering of hand sanitizer drying quickly in my hands. Nurses buzzed to and fro as the faint, shrill cries of undersized newborns pierced the sterile surroundings. Wires, plastic boxes, and ding-donging instruments warned passing caregivers of unknown crises. This was...
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The hallways are lined with women in labor. The beds are filled with mothers holding small or sick newborns. And the walls are plastered with various medical guidelines. This is the labor and maternity ward at Ntchisi District Hospital – one of four district hospitals participating in the quality improvement...
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