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Professor Hippolite Amadi, PhD FRSM FIMechE

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Amadi:2022:10.15406/jpnc.2022.12.00475,
author = {Amadi, H and Kawuwa, MB and Abubakar, AL and Adesina, CT and Olateju, EK},
doi = {10.15406/jpnc.2022.12.00475},
journal = {Journal of Pediatrics and Neonatal Care},
pages = {170--173},
title = {A community integrated concept that minimises death of most vulnerable neonates at poor-resource environments},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.15406/jpnc.2022.12.00475},
volume = {12},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Introduction: Highest proportion of most vulnerable Nigeria neonates are concentrated in hard-to-reach local villages without proper intervention devices owing to unavailable electric power. Hence, majority of needy neonates continue to lose their lives due to their inability to journey to urban cities where few inadequately equipped neonatal intervention centres are located. The Nigerian healthcare system requires the neonates to make the often-treacherous journeys, travelling into the cities in search of possible intervention. This system has continued to fail generations of precious neonates who could have survived otherwise. It is therefore imperative to device a technique that could enable the reversal of the patient traffic – by “taking our medicine to them right where they are" instead of waiting for them to come to our medicine right where we are at urban locations.Methods: Solar-based applicable devices and simplified neonatal intervention procedures operable by basic medical and nursing officers were developed. The technologies were fundamentally tailored for maintainability by the local people. This empowers the confidence of treating many of the regular neonatal emergencies at primary healthcare centre located within the villages. Uncomplicated treatable cases are believed to constitute over 65% of all cases and hence could be adequately supported. Appropriately remanufactured tricycle was modified to operate ambulatory services for referring the cases requiring specialist care in the city.Conclusion: Successful implementation of this concept and its scale-up could guarantee over 75% reduction of neonatal mortality within a controlled geographical region.
AU  - Amadi,H
AU  - Kawuwa,MB
AU  - Abubakar,AL
AU  - Adesina,CT
AU  - Olateju,EK
DO  - 10.15406/jpnc.2022.12.00475
EP  - 173
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 2373-4426
SP  - 170
TI  - A community integrated concept that minimises death of most vulnerable neonates at poor-resource environments
T2  - Journal of Pediatrics and Neonatal Care
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.15406/jpnc.2022.12.00475
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/101543
VL  - 12
ER  -
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