The Special Newborn Care Unit(SNCU) of the Nashik civil hospital is always colourful. If it’s monday, the colour code for SNCU bedsheets is green, if it’s tuesday, the sheets are blue. Similarly, they have colour-code for each day of the week. Not only does it make the unit more attractive, but also this simple measure […]
As part of the WHO’s initiative to better the quality of maternal and newborn healthcare, India has joined eight other nations. The Quality of Care(QoC) improvement network was launched by the WHO and other partners in February in the East African nation of Malawi. The only other Asian nation in the group is Bangladesh. The […]
About 26 million babies are born in India every year. But just 2% of the actually undergo the neonatal screening. Such screenings are quite the norm in western nations but not so in India. Using the screening, it’s possible to assess the possibility of genetic disorders. If there are disorders in newborns, it could lead […]
A hospital in Ahmedabad offers a special offer for parents whose child is a baby girl. Parents of baby girls born in the hospital won’t have to pay the hospital fee- an offer that should be seen in the context of the present child sex ratio in Gujarat: 890 girls for every 1,000 boys. The […]