Neonatal respiratory support substations within Nigerian special care baby units: a noteworthy initiative
Author(s)
O Amadi, Hippolite
L Abubakar, Amina
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Many LMIC neonatal care settings such as Nigeria have been unable to develop a decisive solution against poor neonatal respiratory support that could drive down soaring neonatal mortality rate. Indigenous LMIC companies and philanthropic organisations could be strategically guided and encouraged into playing an efficient passionate role as partners in the bridging of this failure gap. Therefore, such organisations deserve a deliberate collaborative motivation by providing them with enough facts to assess the urgency to partner in saving numerous neonatal lives. A new initiative of ‘neonatal respiratory support substation’ as a distinct subsection of the standard special care baby unit (SCBU) in the Nigerian setting was implemented by an indigenous Nigerian company. Four tertiary hospitals across four major geo-political regions of Nigeria independently benefitted from the passionate gifts and discretely followed up to assess its early impacts. Results from the Centres were similar, with each revealing 94%-100% successful sub-discharge rates within the first 18 weeks of the application. Could this be the long-awaited game changer in Nigeria and the LMICs?
Date Issued
2025-02-17
Date Acceptance
2024-12-03
Citation
Journal of Pediatrics & Neonatal Care, 2025, 15 (1), pp.47-50
ISSN
2373-4426
Publisher
MedCrave Group
Start Page
47
End Page
50
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Pediatrics & Neonatal Care
Volume
15
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
©2025 Amadi, et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially.
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Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2025-02-17