Improving Newborn and Pediatric Quality of Care by Strengthening Access to Safe Use of Oxygen, Pulse Oximetry, and Infection Prevention and Control Measures
Oxygen is a life-saving medicine for the treatment of respiratory conditions, including in newborns and children. For example, in 2019, an estimated 7 million children under the age of five were admitted to hospitals in low- and middle-income countries with pneumonia with signs of hypoxemia (lack of oxygen in the blood). However, too often…