Data Analytics and Assessment Skills, Communication Skills, Health Equity Skills, Community Partnership Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills, Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills Brian Tolleson Data Analytics and Assessment Skills, Communication Skills, Health Equity Skills, Community Partnership Skills, Public Health Sciences Skills, Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills Brian Tolleson

PART 5.3

Infants were dying in rural health centers because they had complications that couldn't be dealt with in those hospitals. Doctors thought that a way to address this would be to transfer them to a larger hospital with more neonatal capacity. But, when the transfer solution was tried, it turned out that more infants were dying. Lives were not being saved. Babies continued to die because the transportation to the secondary or tertiary facilities took so long. The infants could not survive the trip.

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