Indian Kangaroo Research Project - Proyecto Investigación Canguro India

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The psychologists team have arrived in India January 2009

The main Project starts in March but there are some special work that has to be done before , we have to arrange the schedules of the training and research, do some observations of the programs and get adapted to the culture.

The psychologists team met the coordinators of the KMC Programs of the Public Hospital (IOG) and the Amaa Hospital in Chennai. According of the IOG Hospital data nowadays the Neonatology Unit has between 50 and 100 premature babies.

According the last statistical data, the Hospital treat between 10 and 20 thousand new borns babies per year, and 30% of them are premature babies. This numbers shows the Challeng of our Project, there are many babies who need high quality treatment and a rigorous psychological follow up.

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Proyecto Investigación Canguro India

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The Beginning

From 1999 to 2003 the Kangaroo Foundation, in Colombia, received 6 teams from India conformed by a pediatrician and a nurse (AIIMS New Delhi, KEM Mumbai, SMS Medical college Jaipur, PGIMER Chandigarh, KGMU Lucknow and IOG Chennai). The groups stayed in Colombia for one month learning the first stage of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) and then returned to their home towns in order to start the Kangaroo Mother Programs by themselves.

The Following Challenge:

Natalia Varela and Pablo Muñoz two Colombian Psychologists from Kangaroo Mother Foundation have started an ambitious project with two major aims. First training a Professional team in each of the five Kangaroo Programs in charge of carrying out the follow-up and evaluation of premature babies’ psychomotor development in India and second conduncting research about the impact of the kangaroo mother Care technique in the quality of caregiving that the fathers provide to their premature babies.This project is going to take place between March 2009 and March 2010 and we need your support¡¡¡