Yesterday's forum on Global Health was exciting and filled with energy. It was a full room with many left standing. And a special thanks to our good friends from Australia who joined us via our live webcast.
The forum video form yesterday will be up shortly, but for now you can see Dr. Olson's segment on NECN where you get a chance to see the Car Part Incubator in action saving the lives of babies in the developing world.
And finally, CIMIT's Global Health Initiative (GHI) has begun a Facebook Cause. Causes lets you join the GHI Cause you care about and begin making a direct impact on healthcare in the developing world. You can join, show support, add information, ideas or content - Become an involved member or just show your support. It will also provide you with avenues for direct donation.
So please join today and help us give new life to the developing world.
Incubators are necessary for managing babies especially pre-term to help maintain temperature. Most developing countries are warm and are unlikely manage very pre-term babies due to cost. Using and maintaining this equipment is expensive. Bacteria are rapidly becoming resistant to biocides and detergents. This will result in colonization of antibiotic resistant bacteria in these incubators and so cost of managing infection is likely to escalate.
I have worked with very pre-term babies for a long time and noticed babies managed in open incubators (overhead heating) are less likely to get infections. We must discourage developing countries using incubators to reduce avoidable death of babies due to un-sterile equipment.
Posted by: Dr Kadiyali M Srivatsa | 13 January 2009 at 01:38 AM