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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Gulu Regional Referral Hospital has opted for a Kangaroo care system for premature babies as the hospital grapples with a lack of enough incubators. Kangaroo care, or skin-to-skin care, is a technique practiced on newborn, usually preterm, infants wherein the infant is held, skin-to-skin, with …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu Regional Referral Hospital is grappling with a shortage of incubators for premature babies. Currently, the health facility has only five incubators at the neonatal ward with more than 10 premature babies under care. Florence Oyella Otim, the in-charge of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit …