Today you can know even if the unborn baby will be premature and, with treatment, reduce by half the chance. More knowledge about the organs in training, nursing expertise, new technologies and new drugs, promotion of breastfeeding and the role of the family in care are the keys of evolution.
For the first time, the country joined the week of prematurely, from 4 to 10 October, a UNICEF initiative to reflect on prematurely as public health problems and premature as social beings with special needs.
Austral University Hospital (AUH), on time, there will be a “Tribute to premature infants” on Friday 8, for babies who have been patients of the Department of Neonatology, their families and the health care team that cared.