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BBC World Service
How Kangaroo Care is Saving Premature Babies
Producers: Richard Kenny & Zoe Gelber My role: Video Journalist
Colombia, 2023
A short video piece reporting from inside a Kangaroo Care unit in Bogota, Colombia, where premature babies are held skin-to-skin rather than placed in incubators. This life-saving technique was developed in Bogotá in the late 1970s as a response to overcrowding in hospital maternity units.
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