Building Safe Beginnings for Newborns in Gaya
This initiative of SumArth (MicroX Foundation) focused on protecting newborns in Gaya district from hypothermia—a silent but serious cause of neonatal deaths. Under our Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) program, we worked with mothers and families to recognize the risks of low body temperature, understand early warning signs, and take immediate action. KMC is a simple, low-cost skin-to-skin method that keeps babies warm, supports breastfeeding, and improves survival— especially for premature and low-birth-weight infants.
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What we did
- Awareness sessions & live demonstrations on KMC for mothers and families
- Family counselling with mothers, grandmothers, and fathers—newborn care as shared responsibility
- Training nurses as “KMC Champions” inside facilities
- Frontline worker enablement (ASHA/ANM/AWW) with flipbooks, videos & practical tools
- Introduced simple temperature monitoring devices for early hypothermia detection & quick response
Who came together
- Doctors, nurses and facility teams
- ANMs, ASHA and Anganwadi workers
- SHG members and local leaders
- Families of newborns across villages
Results observed
- 4,500+ family members reached indirectly
- Clear rise in awareness and practice of KMC at home & facilities
- Early alerts identified babies at risk; most managed safely at home with timely KMC
- Reduced need for hospitalization and improved response time (reported ~40%)
From Fear to First Embrace in Action
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Help us protect every newborn
Together, we can strengthen family awareness, frontline capacity, and facility readiness—so that preventable hypothermia never steals a newborn’s first embrace.