We Need to Work Together to Save Premature Infants

We Need to Work Together to Save Premature InfantsPremature infants are at a high risk of morbidity and mortality. 1Around 13.4 million babies are born before 37 weeks of pregnancy each year, 2 which add up to about 1 in 10 infants born worldwide. 3Of these, we lose about 1 million each year. 4To remind ourselves about this risk each year, we observe November 17 th as the World Prematurity Day. 5 Many organizations, including the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants and allied groups; 6 LittleBigSouls (Africa); 7 March of Dimes (USA); 8 and the Miracle Babies Foundation 9 and Running for Premature Babies Foundation 10 (both from Australia) have drawn the world's attention to infants' needs for many years.