Continuous skin-to-skin contact starting immediately after delivery even before the baby has been stabilised can reduce mortality by 25 per cent in infants with a very low birth weight. This according to a study in low- and middle-income countries coordinated by the WHO on the initiative of researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Malawi is among countries racing against time to achieve the Abuja Declaration, which rallies States and governments to commit 15 percent of their national budgets towards health financing. Malawi is currently crawling four percent less on the agreed ceiling on health financing, a development the Chairperson for the Parliamentary Committee on Health and Population, Dr. […]
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Pui-Wing Tam, The New York Times Published: 10 Apr 2021 03:59 PM BdST Updated: 10 Apr 2021 03:59 PM BdST Stanisha Land receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois, on February 13, 2021
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It was a seven-minute CNN report on Malawi, a country in East Africa that is one of the world’s poorest. Coronavirus vaccines were nowhere to be found in Malawi, the report said, because richer countries were hogging the supplies. The video focused on Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi’s second-largest city, showing the strain the facility was under as it battled the virus. The hospital’s workers were tending to infected patients but had little prospect of getting vaccinated soon.