{"id":2067,"date":"2014-11-06T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T07:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:26:59","slug":"helping-babies-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/helping-babies-breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping babies breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many health centers in Burundi lack the appropriate equipment to help resuscitate newborn babies. LifeNet International made the equipment available and trained health professionals on its use.<\/strong><em>-By Yves Didier Irakoze<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2069\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lifenet1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2069\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2069 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lifenet1.jpg\" alt=\" Nurses in a training session on how to reanimate a breathless new born baby \u00a9Iwacu\" width=\"490\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lifenet1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lifenet1-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nurses in a training session on how to reanimate a breathless new born baby \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first minute after a baby is born is known as the \u2018Golden Minute\u2019, which provides the best chance of saving the life of a newborn baby struggling to breathe. Ten percent of newborns need help to start breathing. Learning how to do so is a very rewarding aspect of a health professional\u2019s skill set.<br \/>\nJustin Bisimwa, Supervisor of activities in Kayogoro Health Center II in southern Burundireceived resuscitation training from LifeNet and immediately saw results. The day after the training a baby\u2019s life was saved.<br \/>\n\u201cLast month, we also saved a woman from post partum hemorrhage. Before the training, we often transferred patients from the Health Center to the hospital because we couldn\u2019t administer emergency first aid. People would die on the way to the hospital\u201d, Bisimwaindicates.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Aristide Mbonihankuye, a Medical Program Manager at LifeNet International mentions that they provide an elaborate program of medical training. This program is based on five modules: basic concepts (the prevention of infections, the contamination of the medical equipments, etc), newborn care and childbirth, child diseases, chronic illnesses and hygiene.<br \/>\nJustin Bisimwa affirms that the training helped them to work more effectively. \u201cWe now know how to arrange drugs, how to ensure good hygiene and a clean office, how to manage the medicines we use and not to empty the stock, how to care and how to welcome our patients. We know how to reanimate newborn babies by using new techniques and the \u2018baby ambus\u2019 ventilator\u201d, he boasts. The ventilator helps move breathable air in and out of the longs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe work in partnership with Health Centers in 15 provinces of Burundi to improve and reinforce their capacities to improve quality of care\u201d, ElinHenrysson, Business Director at LifeNet Internationalpoints out.<\/p>\n<p>She goes on saying that there are two teams: A team of nurse trainers and a team of management trainers. The two team deal with how to manage human resources, finance, logistic, pharmacy and how to care for patients.<br \/>\nLifeNet International works in Burundi since 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many health centers in Burundi lack the appropriate equipment to help resuscitate newborn babies. LifeNet International made the equipment available and trained health professionals on its use.-By Yves Didier Irakoze The first minute after a baby is born is known as the \u2018Golden Minute\u2019, which provides the best chance of saving the life of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[47,384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}