B92 baby incubator campaign gets intl. support

B92 Fund campaign “The Battle for the Babies” has received important international support. The campaign aims to raise funds to purchase 100 new baby incubators for health institutions across Serbia and replace the old and inadequate ones. B92 baby incubator campaign gets intl. support European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI) President Silke Mader visited Belgrade and the Institute for Neonatology. The EFCNI will support the B92 campaign and take part in organizing the Serbian foundation for the care of prematurely born babies in order to raise awareness of the problems that neonatology, babies and parents are facing, to develop prevention and raise the entire field to European standards. B92: Unfortunately, you had a personal tragedy. You gave a premature birth to twins. Unfortunately, one of them died. As a brave and unselfish woman you decided to help other parents. Mader: The situation was a real nightmare for me. I live in Germany and we certainly have excellent medical equipment, the best you can find for prematurely born children, but as parents we did not get enough information, advice. Nobody listened to us, helped us when our baby daughter died. My dream is not to have a single parent go through the experience I went through and that parents get support from the very beginning. B92: How does your foundation support parents? Mader: We are preparing an adequate information material, we have created a website for parents, we organize campaigns so parents could easily get necessary knowledge and at the same time we bring public and government’s attention which is aimed to improve long-term care for prematurely born children. Every six months we organize a meeting with parents’ associations, we hold lectures. We teach them how to organize themselves better within the associations and we now fight together to change the European law and extend maternal leave for mothers who have prematurely born babies. By seeking better care for the babies we request higher rights for the parents too. The EFCNI president has promised to help raise financial means for the B92 campaign abroad. “We are really amazed and happy that you are doing something so good and fighting to give necessary homes to babies! A safe incubator is a safe and necessary house for a prematurely born baby. And that is equally important to parents and medical staff, to allow them to treat the babies more successfully and to give them the best possible care. What you are doing is wonderful, thank you so much. Babies are our future. By investing in high quality medical care of babies we invest in our own future. What could be better,” she stressed.

B92 baby incubator campaign gets intl. support

European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI) President Silke Mader visited Belgrade and the Institute for Neonatology. The EFCNI will support the B92 campaign and take part in organizing the Serbian foundation for the care of prematurely born babies in order to raise awareness of the problems that neonatology, babies and parents are facing, to develop prevention and raise the entire field to European standards.

B92: Unfortunately, you had a personal tragedy. You gave a premature birth to twins. Unfortunately, one of them died. As a brave and unselfish woman you decided to help other parents.

Mader: The situation was a real nightmare for me. I live in Germany and we certainly have excellent medical equipment, the best you can find for prematurely born children, but as parents we did not get enough information, advice. Nobody listened to us, helped us when our baby daughter died. My dream is not to have a single parent go through the experience I went through and that parents get support from the very beginning.

B92: How does your foundation support parents?

Mader: We are preparing an adequate information material, we have created a website for parents, we organize campaigns so parents could easily get necessary knowledge and at the same time we bring public and government’s attention which is aimed to improve long-term care for prematurely born children. Every six months we organize a meeting with parents’ associations, we hold lectures. We teach them how to organize themselves better within the associations and we now fight together to change the European law and extend maternal leave for mothers who have prematurely born babies. By seeking better care for the babies we request higher rights for the parents too.

The EFCNI president has promised to help raise financial means for the B92 campaign abroad.

“We are really amazed and happy that you are doing something so good and fighting to give necessary homes to babies! A safe incubator is a safe and necessary house for a prematurely born baby. And that is equally important to parents and medical staff, to allow them to treat the babies more successfully and to give them the best possible care. What you are doing is wonderful, thank you so much. Babies are our future. By investing in high quality medical care of babies we invest in our own future. What could be better,” she stressed.