World Health Organization (WHO) shows one of the 10 babies born in the world of preterm labor. Each year approximately 130 million known to man born in the world.
Many preterm births occur in poor countries and the chance to live premature babies is very low. In addition, increased premature condition since the last 20 years.
Based on studies conducted between mid-1990 to 2007, 85 percent of babies born in Asia before the normal time of 37 weeks. The amount is approximately 70 million infants in Africa, while approximately 40 million babies every year.
While in Europe the birth of a premature baby reaches approximately 6.2 percent per year, while Latin America and the Caribbean 9.1 percent.
According to the WHO representative Dr Lale Say, babies born out of the average after 32 weeks in the womb, even some only 22 to 25 weeks in the womb.
“In Asian and African babies often do not get an effective nurse, so that the high mortality rate,” he wrote in the newsletter Say WHO launched ABC, Tuesday (5/1/2010).
The increase was triggered by and the way in the mothers gave birth. Many women who choose caesarean delivery than normal.
The survival rate of these premature babies also appears to have increased, or is it a case of more very premature births are being published by the media and therefore the general public is much more aware than they would have been ten years ago.