Nyfødtmedisin i India
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Saugstad OD.
Newborn medicine in India. Nor J Epidemiol 1997; 7 (1): 99-102.
India has the largest newborn population in the world with approximately 25 million deliveries annually.
Of these 1.3 million die in the newborn period and 4 million before the age of five. The last years
newborn medicine has become a high priority area in India. The goals by the year 2000 are to reduce
perinatal mortality from 60 to 30-35/1000 and infant mortality from 74 to < 60/1000. The number of
low birth weigth infants is today approximately 30% and the goal is to reduce this to 10% at the turn of
the century. A number of efficient strategies have been developed in order to reduce perinatal and
neonatal mortality. Since 1992 the socalled Child Survival and Safe Motherhood (CSSM) program has
contributed significantly to reduce mortality and improve newborn care. The Indian approach is very
systematic summing up in a few key points the necessary care which should be provided at each level.
Developing countries could certainly learn from the Indian experience in solving their own health
problems. The strategy for improving the skills in newborn resuscitation has for instance been very
successfull by implementing the program: ‘Give a breath, save a life’. In the course of only 3 years
more than 10 000 health care workers were trained in resuscitation procedures.
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