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Kangaroo Mother Care in India: Down the Memory Lane

Published:2024-04-15 Issue:2 Volume:38 Page:319-324
ISSN:0973-2179
Container-title:Journal of Neonatology
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Neonatology

Author:

Udani Rekha H.¹,P. N. Suman Rao²^ORCID,Bergh Anne-Marie³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Neonatology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

2. Department of Neonatology, St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

3. UP/SAMRC Research Unit for Maternal, Fetal, Newborn and Child Health Care Strategies, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Abstract

India has been at the forefront of kangaroo mother care (KMC) promotion and implementation in the past three decades. In this article, we describe the history of KMC implementation in India and how KMC has become the standard of care for all preterm or low-birth-weight infants. We distinguish three phases in the development of KMC implementation and scale-up: the early years, the slow middle years and becoming a leader.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Link

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09732179241237885

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