Donates Lullaby Warmers to 8 Children's hospitals in India
Chennai, May 29, 2009: GE Healthcare, the US$17 billion healthcare and life sciences solutions business of global major General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) donated a Lullaby Warmer each to eight selected children's hospitals across India. The donation is part of GE's 'healthymagination' initiative which aims to improve costs, quality and access to affordable healthcare,
The Lullaby Warmer, a healthymagination validated product, has the potential to help caregivers improve access to quality infant care in developing countries where nearly 90% of the world's births occur.
These charitable and government hospitals cater to the needs of a large number of neonates and play a vital role in saving their lives when it matters most - at birth. The new Lullaby Warmer will greatly enhance their neonatal suite and provide care to 70-100 additional newborns. The new Lullaby Warmers are donated to:
"In India, around 1.2 million infants die within a month of birth accounting for almost one fourth of global infant deaths. Many of these deaths are preventable if there is access to quality care solutions. Cost and quality are the twin challenges to creating healthcare access. We are committed to reducing costs, and improving quality and access to affordable healthcare and help save precious lives. The development of Lullaby Warmer in India and this donation is a small example and testimony of our commitment." said V Raja, President & CEO, GE Healthcare South Asia.
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
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