🏥 Government Hospital Deployment
Enabel: Reducing Newborn Mortality in the Abomey-Calavi–Sô-Ava Health Zone
Abomey-Calavi–Sô-Ava health zone, Benin
Funder
Enabel (Belgian Development Agency)
Timeline
2021
Products
Location
Abomey-Calavi–Sô-Ava health zone, Benin
Overview
Enabel, the Belgian development agency, distributed TempWatch bracelets to health centers in the Abomey-Calavi–Sô-Ava health zone in Benin as part of the P@SRIS health program, to monitor hypothermia in low-birth-weight newborns.
In 2021, the health zone recorded 5,995 live births, including 265 low-birth-weight babies — 210 of whom received a TempWatch bracelet for hypothermia monitoring, supported by 738 home visits from health workers. Neonatal mortality among low-birth-weight infants fell 68% — from 81 deaths in the first half of 2020 to 26 in the first half of 2021.
Results Achieved
68%
Reduction in neonatal mortality among low-birth-weight infants (H1 2020 → H1 2021)
210
Low-birth-weight newborns monitored with TempWatch (2021)
738
Home visits conducted by health workers
5,995
Live births recorded in the health zone (2021)
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Content translated and summarized from Enabel's article "Des bracelets électroniques sauvent les vies des bébés de faible poids de naissance" by Reece-Hermine Adanwenon, published April 7, 2022.
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