More than one million babies die on their birth day every year and four inexpensive products can help to save most of them. A baby's first day the riskiest day of his or her life — in the USA and other countries, according to the 14th annual State of the World's Mothers report (88 pages). Every year nearly 3 million babies die in the first month and mostly from preventable causes.
Four products costing between 13 cents and $6 each can save newborns — many on the first day of life.
The products are:
• steroid injections for women in preterm labor (to reduce deaths due to premature babies' breathing problems);
• resuscitation devices (to save babies who do not breathe at birth);
• chlorhexidine cord cleansing (to prevent umbilical cord infections); and
• injectable antibiotics (to treat newborn sepsis and pneumonia).
Read more at NBF
Four products costing between 13 cents and $6 each can save newborns — many on the first day of life.
The products are:
• steroid injections for women in preterm labor (to reduce deaths due to premature babies' breathing problems);
• resuscitation devices (to save babies who do not breathe at birth);
• chlorhexidine cord cleansing (to prevent umbilical cord infections); and
• injectable antibiotics (to treat newborn sepsis and pneumonia).
Read more at NBF
