Small babies, big potential. Today we honor World Premature Day and our partnership with Embrace Global.
On Friday, the Ministry of Health commissioned an upgraded neonatal care unit at Pallisa General Hospital. Every unit like it brings skilled care a little closer to the families who need it most.
Uganda's MNCH and MPDSR Report for FY2025/26 shows what is possible. More than nine in ten preterm babies admitted to newborn units in Uganda survived. At Butenga HC IV, a facility Babies and Mothers Alive (BAMA) supports, the newborn unit grew from four to nine beds and cared for 492 sick newborns in a year, with a case fatality rate of just 0.6%. Through our Hospital to Home programme, Village Health Teams followed 141 small and sick babies home to make sure they kept growing.
We are proud to see this work featured in the national report, and we owe it to the midwives, nurses, doctors, mothers, Village Health Teams and district leaders who make it happen every day. In 2025, the Ministry of Health also named BAMA Best Implementing Partner in the Greater Masaka Region, a recognition we share with all of them.
As BAMA, we commit to keep mentoring the hands that care for small babies, keep a space for every mother to hold her baby close, and keep following babies home until they are strong. Alongside the Ministry of Health and our partners, we will keep working until quality newborn care is within reach of every family in Uganda.
Every baby born too soon deserves a strong start and a hopeful future.
World Prematurity Day
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