Hanamkonda Pioneers Simple Solutions to Reduce Sepsis Among Newborns
At the Government Maternity Hospital in Hanamkonda, Warangal District Telangana the Safe Care, Saving Lives team is finding simple solutions to solve major challenges affecting the health and wellbeing of mothers and newborns. In the Special Newborn Care Unit of the hospitals, …
A Paradigm Shift in Public Health: Transforming Maternal and Newborn Care in Telangana, India
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 …
Changing the Fate of Newborn Babies in Nandyal, India
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 …
Cutting Cases of Hypothermia: A Safe Care, Saving Lives Success
Venkata Padma Hospital is a privately owned children’s hospital in the Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh. It caters to people living in the nearby tribal districts. The majority of the babies admitted to the hospital are born outside of the hospital facility …
Lessons Learned Saving Newborn Lives in India
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 …
Premature Babies in India Get a Helping Hand
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 …
Business World Features Safe Care, Saving Lives
Indian business magazine Business World recently published an indepth article on the Safe Care, Saving Lives program and its efforts to reduce newborn deaths in India. Of the 2.7 million neonatal deaths that occurred globally in 2015, one third occurred in India. The article …
Simple Solutions to the Greatest Health Challenges
This piece originally appeared in The Huffington Post. In life, the simplest solutions are often the best. When it comes to healthcare, they’re also almost always the cheapest. It’s striking then that we so often choose complex, costly, and ineffective healthcare solutions …
Humans of Safe Care, Saving Lives
This is part of a series of profiles of the dedicated individuals behind the Safe Care, Saving Lives project. Safe Care, Saving Lives is a quality improvement project to improve neonatal care in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. “I was born in a …
Best Practices Booklet Launch Event at King George Hospital in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
This blog is coauthored by Sujata Rao, Gayatri Emani, Santhosh Kraleti, and Vikrant Prabhakar of ACCESS Health India. They write about how the King George Hospital Quality Improvement team came together to drive success through quality improvement. King George Hospital is part …
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