ACCESS Health was recently invited to share learnings from India on quality improvement as part of the 13th International Breastfeeding and Lactation Symposium in Paris. Ajitkumar Sudke, ACCESS Health India’s Director of Quality and Process Improvement and head of our Safe Care, Saving Lives program shared preliminary findings from a research study taking place in three Indian hospital…

Margaret Crotty, the Executive Director of the New York based nonprofit, Partnership for Children, and one of the newest members of the Board of Directors of ACCESS Health International, recently visited Sangareddy Hospital in Hyderabad, Telangana to view their maternal and newborn quality improvement programs. District Hospital Sangareddy Hospital was one of the first hospitals…

Healthcare leaders in Telangana joined together at Niloufer Hospital to pledge their support to improve health outcomes for babies born preterm. Premature birth and low birthweight is a leading cause of infant mortality in India. The Government of Telangana has undertaken a quality improvement initiative at Niloufer Hospital and other hospitals across the state called…

HealthCare India recently published an in depth report on our maternal and newborn child work in Telangana, India. Read the original post here or the excerpt from the post below. More than 659,000 newborn babies die every year in India. It is the highest number of newborn deaths in the world. The country also accounts…

This article originally appeared in The Hindu. Fewer Newborns in Telangana State get Breast Milk within an Hour In Telangana just 37% of newborns are breastfed within one hour of birth. The figure is lower than national average of 41.6%. Also, two thirds of mothers in the State breastfeed exclusively for the first six months.…

India is poised to become one of the three largest economies in the world by the end of this decade. As one of the world’s great nations, India played an important role in shaping the Sustainable Development Goals that make up the United Nations development agenda between 2015 and 2030. Indeed, the Sustainable Development Goals…

Although infant mortality rates in India have come down significantly over the last decade[1], the country still reports one of the highest infant mortality rate in the world. Of the three million neonatal deaths which happened globally in 2012, thirty three percent occurred in India alone. The survival of a newborn in India is not…

The Safe Care, Saving Lives program launched in partnership with the Aarogyasri Health Care Trust in 2014 is designed to save newborn lives, reducing the neonatal and perinatal mortality rate in India by fifteen percent over a four year period. Currently, more than 680,000 newborn babies die every year in India. It is the highest…

In November 2016, Aarogyasri Health Care Trust, Commissioner Health and Family Welfare and ACCESS Health International organized the third Safe Care, Saving Lives learning session in Hyderabad at the Indian Institute of Health and Family Health. Staff from fifteen facilities participated in the session. Those facilities were all based in Telangana are are part of…

When Fatima* was seven months pregnant, there was despair instead of joy among family and doctors surrounding her. Her baby was expected to be born prematurely and was thus at risk of respiratory disorders, underdevelopment, and even death. Luckily for Fatima, she was being treated at Sangareddy District Hospital in Telangana, India. There, a Quality…