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[Today I take you to a hospital in a remote location in Honduras where the situation is so critical]
[that four of every ten newborns die due to a lack of the most basic equipment.]
[Now an innovative project of our parent company, General Electric, ]
[is giving doctors and nurses the tools they need to save lives.]
[The number one challenge is that the rural communities are very isolated]
[and are in areas that are difficult to access.]
[To reach Olanchito, we travel from Tegucigalpa to San Pedro Sula, ]
[and then drive five hours by road.]
[In this hospital, the needs are even more evident.]
[Our equipment: obsolete, old, ruined.]
[We could not take an X-ray, we could not perform a surgery because the machine was bad.]
[Here, the indexes of infant mortality were very high.]
[Four of every ten babies died due to a lack of resources.]
[All the incubators had burned.]
[It was impossible to put a child in an incubator, because it did not have the ideal temperature.]
[With so many needs, Olanchito is the ideal place for the program]
["Developing Health Globally."]
[Experts from General Electric met with the Honduran Minister of Health, ]
[doctors and nurses to develop a working plan.]
[Afterward, it was off to work.]
[We're able to take the best and brightest professionals and the most advanced technology]
[to help the most vulnerable persons in the world.]
[The equipment that General Electric is giving now comes to us in great quantities.]
[Since the project started, they have donated more than 3,000 pieces ]
[of medical equipment in 14 different countries.]
[But the solutions General Electric offers are comprehensive--]
[not only equipment and training of doctors and nurses,]
[but also taking care of big problems that in many cases are the cause of the illnesses.]
[And so there are still areas in the country where there is neither electricity nor clean water,]
[and these two elements are essential to provide a functional health system.]
[Today it is all celebration in Olanchito.]
[This hospital attends to more than 80,000 persons--]
[He suddenly got ill, they put him on the monitor they had which was donated.]
[Well thank God it was donated because they always used it; it served him well.]
[Today this mother is confident that her son will be cured.]
[The doctor already told me that the baby is already doing well.]
[The goal is to reverse the consequences of poverty in the most humble communities,]
[giving them the tools necessary so that trained professionals can do what they know best: ]
[It is as if we had won the grand prize in Olanchito.]
[Our pediatricians, astonished; our operating rooms, astonishing;]
[and we now want our hospitals to continue to be top-notch.]
[Well, I tell you that this program of General Electric plans on expanding to other hospitals]
