{"id":6827,"date":"2019-11-27T08:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T05:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","slug":"improving-healthcare-for-preterm-infants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/27\/improving-healthcare-for-preterm-infants\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Healthcare For Preterm Infants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Steve\nAdudans<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On\nNovember 17th, every year, the world marks World Prematurity Day (WPD). It\nacknowledges the journeys of preterm infants and their families as well as\nraises awareness of the challenges faced by children born before their due date\nand their families. This is ever so important as the incidence of preterm\nbirth, worldwide, is increasing rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According\nto the World Health Organisation (WHO), every year an estimated 15 million\ninfants worldwide are born preterm (over three weeks early). Sadly, the\ncomplications of preterm birth are among the leading causes of death in\nchildren under five. All infants born preterm require immediate and significant\nmedical care posing unexpected challenges \u2014 emotional and financial \u2014 to their\nparents and family system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While neonatal deaths in Kenya stand at 22 in every 1,000 births, 75 percent of them occur within the first seven days of the infant\u2019s life. But all is not lost. These problems can be solved\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/lifestyle\/fitness\/Improving-healthcare-for-preterm-infants\/4258372-5363694-iba24sz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steve Adudans On November 17th, every year, the world marks World Prematurity Day (WPD). It acknowledges the journeys of preterm infants and their families as well as raises awareness&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}