Each year, some 15 million babies in the world, more than one in 10 births, are born too early, according to the just released report Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth.
However, with available and inexpensive treatment 75 percent could survive.
Prematurity is the major cause of low-birth weight, and is also the first of the six leading causes of under-5 mortality, with about 81% occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Our guests are Gynecologists and the Tamale teaching hospital in Accra, Dr. Hawa Maliki and Dr Fathea Bani, Pediatrician with Tamale Teaching Hospital, Accra Ghana for more.
