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US agency, ABUAD partner to help babies survive

By Ayodele Afolabi, Ado Ekiti
26 August 2018   |   4:08 am
A United States of America-based health and philanthropic institution, Project CURE, has entered into partnership with Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti...

Baby. Photo credit_ Newswatch

A United States of America-based health and philanthropic institution, Project CURE, has entered into partnership with Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD) for 
training of experts in new techniques to reduce child mortality, occasioned by lack of breathing first minute after birth.

The agency has trained medical workers of the University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) on new medical initiative tagged: ‘Helping a Baby Breathe’ that will make a baby survive seconds after delivery.

This is in addition to the donation of 300 sophisticated beds by Project Cure.

At the week-long training, the medical practitioners were trained
by experts from Project Cure, worldly
renowned for giving aids to individuals and nations to boost 
healthcare needs.

At a dinner organised by ABUAD for experts from the agency, Dr.
Carlos Ramos and Dr. Lee Jones, last Friday, ABUAD’s founder, Chief
 Afe Babalola (SAN), praised the agency’s President/Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Douglas Jackson for believing in humanity.

He lamented that the menace of child and maternal mortality had
rendered many children motherless and vice versa, owing to pervasive
ignorance among Africans.

He said: “Project CURE has been of immense benefits to African nations. No fewer than 112 countries, including those in African continent, have been beneficiaries and ABUTH was a beneficiary of this benevolence,
meant to tackle poor healthcare needs of the citizens.”

After presenting certificates to participants, Dr.
Ramos said the first minute of a child after birth, called golden
minute, was very crucial for the newborn’s survival, urging
the experts to use the techniques to help a baby that did not initiate breathing from birth, to
reduce child mortality in Nigeria.

He added: “Project CURE is committed to improving people’s wellbeing, which is why this partnership is going to be long term. This helping baby survive initiative is a crucial aspect of medicine
and goes along with making the mother survive during labour. The two are like Siamese twins.”

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