Kitui district hospital's newborn unit – Success story: Transforming a nursery room into an independent newborn unit

This Success Story is geared towards encouraging nurses globally to work very hard in order to save newborn lives as well as contribute towards meeting Millennium Development Goal Number 4 (Increasing Child/ infant survival). To make them understand that hard work and determination pays. “Practice makes perfect”, it is always good to put what you learn into practice in order to better your best.The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step, in this regard, we should focus on positive results always concentrating on our strengths in order to achieve our set goals. We should never let challenges be our obstacles in saving the lives of the infants. Let us not keep on complaining and giving excuses as to why we are not performing, instead, we should be innovative, creative and have positive thinking towards challenges.For those working in Countries with very limited resources, let us try and use basic and effective measures to save newborn lives, bearing in mind that newborns are helpless and voiceless, let us receive them warmly and be their voice; together we can save the lives of millions of babies in the world hence reducing neonatal/infant mortality to below 5% with determination. Nothing brings satisfaction in life than diligently working hard and later watching fruits multiply.Meeting Millennium Development Goal number 4 for child survival will be increasingly determined by how well Countries can reduce newborn deaths, as now more than 43% of under – five deaths globally occur in the first month of life.As committed Professionals, let us develop and defend good care to the newborns.