If four out of ten births went wrong in our hospital, we would have all those ballots so as not to have our baby. In our environment, the death of a newborn baby It is not common, but in many countries of the world it is a sad reality, too common. And it's still a tragedy, no matter how far we have those countries.
UNICEF and WHO have developed the "Action Plan for all newborns," a document that aims to mark ways to end preventable deaths of newborns. If you invest in quality care around birth and sick and low birth weight infants, up to three million babies and women could be saved every year.
The Action Plan defends that there are currently cost-effective solutions to protect women and children in the most dangerous day of their lives: that of birth. It promotes innovative ways to strengthen health sector strategies, describes standards to establish quality of care, and indicators to measure births and deaths.
It is overwhelming to know that almost three million newborns who die, and another 2.6 million who are born already dead, are generally absent in the statistics of their countries. What happens if neither their births nor their deaths are registered? Governments do not have to be accountable to anyone, they do not worry about avoiding those deaths.
How has the Action Plan for newborns been developed?
Given this scenario, we must act, hence the Action Plan. Something must be done, and many agencies commit to it. But how has the compromise been reached, where does this plan come from?
He Action Plan All Newborns It is based on the latest epidemiology, scientific data and knowledge at the national and global level and serves as support for the movement "All women, all children" of the Secretary General of the United Nations, which aims to inform and report on the Women's and children's health.
For its preparation, the advice of experts and partners, led by WHO and UNICEF, as well as the results of several consultative meetings in which multiple stakeholders participated and a web-based consultation in which they were received More than 300 observations.
After discussing it in the recent 67 World Health Assembly, Member States endorsed the document and firmly committed themselves to implementing the recommended measures. Periodically, until 2030, progress will be assessed to achieve global goals and objectives.
Although infant mortality drops in the world, much remains to be done, and against, newborn deaths have stagnated. Now, they represent a higher percentage than what happened in 1990, since they have increased from 33% to 44%.
On the website dedicated to the care of newborns we can find in pdf. and in Spanish the Guidance Summary of the action plan to end preventable, very interesting mortality, as well as the entire document in English.
We hope that the Action Plan for all newborns will reduce deaths worldwide and that it reaches all governments, that this Millennium Goal is really being struck that is far from being fulfilled and that is a tragedy for so many families with difficulties in accessing health in the world.
