Zero Separation. Together for Better Care!

During the last couple of months, healthcare systems all around the world were and still are confronted with an extraordinary challenge. The pandemic affects all of us, yet it seems to impact each individual differently.

Hospitalized and preterm newborns are especially vulnerable, which in turn has an effect on their parents. There have been many parents struggling with the very restricted or even prohibited access to the neonatal units due to COVID-19.

This separation of parents from their babies has been decided upon using no current evidence and the long-term consequences of the restrictions are enormous. The lack of skin-to-skin care, breastfeeding, and the exclusion of the parents in their babies’ care affect newborns and their parents alike.

Babies born prematurely often have a weakened immune system, making them especially susceptible to sepsis.

Today the GLANCE Network started its global campaign "Zero Separation. Together for better care!" - keep preterm and sick babies close to their parents. The GLANCE (Global Alliance for Newborn Care) wants to raise the awareness of the need to adequately support families and babies born too soon, too small, and too sick - a case wholeheartedly supported by the Global Sepsis Alliance and the World Sepsis Day Movement.