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GLOBAL GRANT PROJECT PROPOSAL
PROJECT NAME: HELP AT BIRTH
Maternal and child health should be one of our concerns as the increase of births to teenage mothers has become a fact. The lack of knowledge in the care and prior checks that should have a mother to prevent her baby from developing problems at birth is another major issue in Argentina.
The "Professor Alejandro Posadas" National Hospital is a medical institution that develops assistive tasks of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of health, plus education and research activities. This institution under the National Ministry of Health is located in the town of Palomar of Morón, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It covers 22 hectares and has 56,000 square metres of floor space spread over 7 floors divided into four pavilions connected by a central area on the first floor and ground floor. Throughout the years, this hospital has specialized in the treatment of difficult births, both of premature and babies suffering from malformations. Out of 4,026 babies born last year 12.6% were premature (less than 37 weeks pregnant, 444 were born weighing less than 2,000 grams). Of the total number of births 25% of mothers do not have an appropiate birth control. Likewise the population of twins in this hospital doubles the total population, so this is epidemiologically significant because 50% of twin-births requires attention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
The population served by the hospital is at low-income and low-education levels.
The members of the Rotary Club of Caseros Norte became aware of the need of this Hospital in terms of high standard equipment for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; so the project being stated here has been developed in order to benefit a significant population included in a geographic strip of our District .
Contact person/headquarters 1:
Surname: Benvenuti Name: Julio A.
Phone: 54-11-4758-2781
Cel. 54-9-11-3199-9782.
E-mail. juliobenvenuti@yahoo.es
Contact person/headquarters 2:
Surname: Seijas Name: Juan Carlos.
Phone 011 4750-2488
Cel. 011 15-4439-3187
E-mail. juancase1@gmail.com
NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY.
Beneficiaries:
It aims to benefit thousands of newborn children not only within the area of Tres de Febrero and Morón - where the National Hospital "Professor Alejandro Posadas" is located- but across the country, as all infants at high risk of survival must be hospitalized in this institution. In the past year 4,026 were born in this hospital out of which 943 children (23.4%) were admitted into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for whom the use of incubators and "servocunas" (servo-cradles) becomes of essential importance.
Needs of the community:
The community to be served consists of newborns who come from a low-income population, whose mothers -increasingly younger- do not perform pregnancy checks; premature births of infants weighing less than 1,500 gms at perinatal high risk; many serious malformations which imply greater complexity care. The 20% of newborns belongs to mothers under age 19.
Justification for the diagnosis of the situation:
Members of the Rotary Club of Caseros Norte regularly visit the Hospital "Professor Alejandro Posadas". Various surveys -including discussions with doctors and nurses of the institution- have shown its shortcomings and have increased the interest of the rotarian club to favor the hospital in terms of providing them with the necessary equipment to save the lives of newborns.
Brief description of the proposed project
Summary of the proposed activities: The ultimate goal of this project is to provide high-tech equipment designed to save lives of newborns at high risk.
Description of the elements for the project:
- 3 Intensive care nursery
Intensive care incubator with servo-control
air temperature and skin. It is designed with closed circuit
ensuring presettable temperatures, precise, stable and
homogeneous. Single-walled hood (double wall optional). It has
Fully hinged front door, with four wickets
automatic iris two wickets and six serum-income.
Intensive care 180º rebuttable door. Sliding mattress Porta
X-ray moves and Anti-Trendelenburg Trendelenburg of
up to + / -10 ° apt. With X-ray cassette holder tray powerplant
servo-seven alarms.
- 2 Intensive care incubator
Intensive care incubator, Microprocessor Controlled
skin temperature and air. It has two skin temperature
(T1-T2), allowing use in twins or for tracking
temperature variation central / peripheral in the patient
(DT programmable alarm ratio).
The information of the air temperature and of skin is depicted in
large digital displays, which allow to display the values
distance. A graphic display of LCD (liquid crystal display)
generously sized and adjustable at the option, allows
configuration settings menu, the
displaying information of procedures, values
registered, trend graphs 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours and
individualization of alarms. It also allows
Patient ID (PID) and the configuration of the area of
comfort (ZC), the date, time, timer and alarm. Third
control optional accessories for modular integration
(Pulse oximeter, humidity control servo, servo-oxygen
balance). Includes a quick help guide and a troubleshooting guide
of trouble alarms. Using the rotary commander
(Dial option selection, rotation and oppression)
menu options on the screen are selected.
Visual and luminous indication of alarms and on the screen.
Includes a general alarm displayed and heard
at safety distances; large in size, that reports
any event in the team.
Hood special incubators acrylic double wall
large dimensions, with a domed roof piece, with 4
folding doors at 180, two intensive care with 2 wickets
oval and two doors each auxiliary minor procedures,
one with and one MAX cannula-opening with iris portillo
choice. With 8 cannula-openings, 2 at each vertex of the team, which
allow the entry of sensors, nozzles and other.
Includes infusion and mast holder shelf adjustable monitors
height and double drawer slide forward.
The equipment enables movement Trendelemburg comprehensive and
Anti-Trendelenburg continuous electrically actuated through
controls located on the bottom of module
Control. It allows up to an angle of 15 ° with positioning
Automatic Horizontal crib.
Mattress 61cm x 40cm wide which allows the use with twins.
The Sliding support mattress holds outwards and has
a built-in tray holder chassis for radiographic films,
which may be accessed by a door of intensive therapy.
It has a flexible arm for fan socket which eliminates
weight thereof and improves patient comfort.
It has a roll cab with four wheels, two with brakes very
Robust, high security for shipment within therapy.
Weight and dimensions:
- Weight: 78kg (standard)
- Dimensions: 135 x 60 x 105 cm
List of committed governmental and non-governmental participants:
The General Bureau of Posadas Hospital, Department of Neonatology, the medical community and Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Caseros Norte.
Areas of interest
- Maternal and Child Health.
Sustainability and Supervision
The support of the activity in the future, once the financing of the subsidy, is guaranteed by the General Bureau of Posadas Hospital which commits to the maintenance of the equipment and training in the use of equipment to doctors and nurses.
Members of the Rotary Club of Caseros Norte will commit themselves to regularly visit the institution in order to verify both the operational and maintenance tasks of the property donated.
Approximate budget: us$ to 56,800
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