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Baby deaths drop 54%
By Cai Wenjun |
September 11, 2010, Saturday
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THE incidence of newborn babies suffocating at birth has dropped by 54 percent in inland and remote provinces and their mortality rate due to suffocation also halved in the past five years, thanks to the promotion of resuscitation skills for medical staff.
Neonatal asphyxia, the inability to breath at birth, is a leading cause of death for newborn babies and children under five in China, accounting for one fifth of all death cases.
It is also the major reason for organ and brain damage, officials from the Ministry of Health told a meeting to revaluate the five-year neonatal resuscitation program and arrange follow-up tasks in Shanghai yesterday.
"The neonatal resuscitation program is a simple and feasible skill being promoted at grass-roots medical facilities in an effort to effectively drop newborn babies' death and disability rates," said Xu Zongyu from the Ministry of Health's maternal and child health and community health department, which launched the program with the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The five-year program has trained more than 100,000 medical staff at 20,000 hospitals in 20 provinces with high mortality rates in neonatal resuscitation and first-aid skills.
Data from 322 hospitals revealed that at least 90,000 infants were saved from possible death and disability due to the program.
Johnson & Johnson has pledged US$1.25 million to extend the program for five years.
Neonatal asphyxia, the inability to breath at birth, is a leading cause of death for newborn babies and children under five in China, accounting for one fifth of all death cases.
It is also the major reason for organ and brain damage, officials from the Ministry of Health told a meeting to revaluate the five-year neonatal resuscitation program and arrange follow-up tasks in Shanghai yesterday.
"The neonatal resuscitation program is a simple and feasible skill being promoted at grass-roots medical facilities in an effort to effectively drop newborn babies' death and disability rates," said Xu Zongyu from the Ministry of Health's maternal and child health and community health department, which launched the program with the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The five-year program has trained more than 100,000 medical staff at 20,000 hospitals in 20 provinces with high mortality rates in neonatal resuscitation and first-aid skills.
Data from 322 hospitals revealed that at least 90,000 infants were saved from possible death and disability due to the program.
Johnson & Johnson has pledged US$1.25 million to extend the program for five years.
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