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[Well, one of the biggest problems in developing countries is the lack of health services.]
[For that reason, hundreds of thousands of children die every year--]
[something that could be avoided.]
[whose mission is to improve health in the most vulnerable populations of the world.]
[The project first started in Africa and Asia and is now in Latin America ]
[where the first country to benefit is Honduras.]
[Every four hours, a baby of less than one year of age dies in Honduras.]
[They told me to find a doctor. Gadito was born.]
[Twenty-five of every thousand do not have hopes to live.]
[If I left him, he could die.]
[Honduras is the country with the second highest infant mortality rate in Central America,]
[and the third poorest country in the hemisphere.]
[I feel really bad, really bad.]
[There is nothing to be done for him.]
[I can only be by his side. Only that remains for me and asking God for him to be cured.]
[But it is not the lack of trained professionals, but rather of resources.]
[Doctors here in Honduras have the capability to help those children, ]
[but they do not have the technology.]
[On occasion, we would be, maybe, attending a little patient, right, who was gravely ill,]
[but we had around us other patients who did not have any other type of monitoring.]
[So, when we turned around, we saw that he was no longer breathing.]
[But today there is hope for hundreds of children thanks to an alliance between six hospitals]
[in Honduras and the company General Electric.]
[It is all part of the program "Developing Health Globally," ]
[whose objective is to reduce infant mortality.]
[We come in to help them, to give them the technology and training ]
[so that those doctors can save their children.]
[Since the program began in 2004, ]
[GE has donated more than $30 million in medical equipment,]
[$8 million more in training and education, ]
[and that which began in 14 nations in Africa and Asia has now extended to Latin America.]
[It is simple, there are many children who are dying, ]
[and there is no reason for why that should happen.]
[This is the teaching hospital in Tegucigalpa, ]
[where the most critical cases from across the whole nation arrive.]
[Here are treated more than 14,000 births each year and the patients are the most vulnerable.]
[They come in an improvised basket; they come with oxygen in an inappropriate form, but...]
[Thanks to GE, today they can depend on a neonatal room equipped with the top technology]
[and resources to carry out the most critical surgical interventions.]
[Each one of the 70 babies is monitored minute by minute.]
[I had a baby, the first one, ]
[I had it here in the hospital and now I am happy to have the other here, ]
[because this one is very nice.]
[This dream turned into a reality for Hondurans as a result of the work of this visionary,]
[who with the help of a squadron of Hispanic volunteers from GE, leads the project.]
[The goal is to try to help really make an impact on infant mortality]
[and to boost the health system so that it is sustainable.]
[The commitment is a great one.]
[This relationship that begins is the seed which hopes to]
[result in opportunities of life for hundreds of Honduran babies.]
[And the truth is that they deserve a strong applause because what a marvelous program!]
[Tomorrow, in the second part of this report, ]
[we will go to another hospital in a rural zone of Honduras]
[where the situation is even more critical due to a lack of resources.]
