If all else fails use the dreadful PPPs to save babies

By Alba Cela A recent BIRN investigation  has unveiled a painful truth about Albanian maternity wards. They lack some key equipment for the cases of premature births, equipment that is necessary to save lives. The infant mortality rate has been creeping up in Albania for the last 2 years with more than 200 babies not being able to make it each year. Truth is that some of these cases are hopeless, they involve extreme prematurity or unresolvable health problems. However it is also true that doctors and nurses claim that the absence of incubators, oxygen masks and some medicine makes…