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In Uganda’s Mbale Hospital, simple but powerful methods like skin-to-skin contact, CPAP breathing support, and breastmilk feeding are helping save newborn lives.

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00:00so when you put the baby on the chest most of the time the baby will not want the baby will not be
00:29called to the baby the energy that the baby will use to generate their its own heat will be used for
00:36building the borders kangaroo care has so many more benefits for these babies than an incubator and for
00:41us we're always saying that the mother is free or the father or whoever they don't need electricity
00:46they don't need batteries and backup power they don't need to be sterilized or cleaned we ask
00:53them to bathe and keep clean but we don't have to do special sterilization
01:07we admit babies who are less than 28 days babies with different conditions sometimes they have
01:24asphyxia at birth hie infections sepsis pneumonias but also a very big number of our babies are preterm
01:32so those who are born before nine months we are doing our mpd sarah or weekly mortalities mostly
01:40cause of death you find that most of these babies really have died because they couldn't get
01:47their respiratory support or super machines on time this is because in imba regional referral
01:53hospital we use a system of first-come-first-serve
02:05hospital hospital we use a system of first-come-first-serve
02:17I really thank God for them because they have been teaching me what to do, how to care for
02:34the baby, how to breastfeed, how to do each and everything concerning a free-term baby.
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