by adminpia | Jul 1, 2024 | Guidelines
Physical contact with their babies in the neonatal ICU! That’s what some furious parents are demanding after they were denied the opportunity to bond with their critically ill children. That’s #CarteBlanche this Sunday at 7pm on M-Net, DStv channel 101.Subscribe to...
by adminpia | Jul 1, 2024 | Guidelines
The aim of this skin care guideline is to provide evidence-based, contextualized guidelines for the care of full term, healthy neonatal skin. Complications in skin conditions and special populations, such as preterm and critically ill infants are outside the scope of...
by adminpia | Jul 1, 2024 | Guidelines
From healthy Newborn Network: Newborns’ care experiences have a lasting impact: they feel pain and discomfort, and can experience emotional distress, particularly when separated from their families. We invite you to share far and wide the landmark Respectful...
by adminpia | Jul 1, 2024 | Guidelines
Evidence shows that breastfeeding has many health, human capital and future economic benefits for young children, their mothers and countries. The new Cost of Not Breastfeeding tool, based on open access data, was developed to help policy-makers and...
by adminpia | Jul 1, 2024 | Guidelines
Over the last few years in SA, the dramatic rise in neonatal litigation has highlighted the need for improved clinical record keeping. While it is critical that there is accountability within the health system when errors do occur, in many cases the health care...
by adminpia | Jul 1, 2024 | Guidelines
More mothers are attending health facilities to deliver their babies, yet 2.6 million babies are stillborn every year, more than a third (42%) of those in Sub-Saharan Africa. What approaches can we apply to prevent stillbirths? Pregnancy should be a time of joyful...
