Hello and welcome to rewind were back here at dohas Iconic Museum of islamic out for another look back at some of the best documentaries weve brought you over the past 10 years this week were returning to the United States and 2013 at that time Cleveland Ohio was experiencing one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the industrialized world disproportionately affecting africanamerican malpas. Filum ed the racial gap is growing wider and many mothers continue to experience this tragic loss thats why weve chosen to air this important investigation again from al jazeera as faultline series here is americas infant mortality crisis. Every year in america over 11000. 00 babies die on the day that theyre born. Most of just born too early their vital organs hearts and lungs still on form. Even those who survive beyond 24 hours often die before their 1st birthday. But if the baby is africanamerican they are more than twice as likely to die. Faultlines travels to Cleveland Ohio to look at
Industrialized world disproportionately affecting africanamerican mothers since our film at the racial gap is growing wider and many mothers continue to experience this tragic loss thats why weve chosen to air this important investigation again from aljazeera as faultline series here is americas infant mortality crisis. Every year in america over 11000. 00 babies die on the day that theyre born. Most are just born too early their vital organs hearts and lungs still on form. Even those who survive beyond 24 hours often die before their 1st birthday. But if the baby is africanamerican they are more than twice as likely to die. Faultlines travels to Cleveland Ohio to look at whats causing these deaths and to try to find out why the United States has the worst rates of infant mortality in the industrialized world. Its monday morning in clevelands Metro Health Hospital d taking. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into the neo natal intensive care unit close to me curious. Weighing just
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Risk you know. Im going to call on al jazeera. Hello and welcome to rewind were back here at doha as Iconic Museum of islamic art for another look back at some of the best documentaries weve brought you over the past 10 years this week were returning to the United States and 2013 at that time Cleveland Ohio was experiencing one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the industrialized world disproportionately affecting africanamerican malpas. The racial gap is growing wider and many mothers continue to experience this tragic loss thats why weve chosen to air this important investigation again from aljazeera is faultline series here is americas infant mortality crisis. Every year in america over 11000. 00 babies die on the day that theyre born. Most of just born too early their vital organs hearts and lungs still on form. Even those who survive beyond 24 hours often die before their 1st birthday. But if the baby is africanamerican they are more than twice as likely to die. Both lin
And to try to find out why the United States has the worst rate of infant mortality in the industrialized world. Its monday morning in clevelands metrohealth hospital. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into Neonatal Intensive Care Unit known as the nicu. Weighing just over 2 pounds, hes 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. Hes really retracting. You see his Blood Pressure . Very low. Theyre right now trying to get urgent care to the baby thats just been born here, literally within the last couple of hours. And right now getting respiration assistance, and an intravenous drip inserted. This is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. Medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies, but they havent changed one aspect of this crisis. Almost all of the babies in this ward are black. Just under 40 percent of the babies born are African American but they contribute to 70 percent of the ba