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...Once CPAP becomes widespread throughout Vietnam, Ringer and Evans hope to bring it to other developing countries as well...
Once the new CPAP was developed, Ringer, Evans and other members of Project Vietnam had to convince local doctors that the technology actually worked and would be affordable...
Ringer says CPAP has now received approval from Vietnam’s Ministry of Health, and Project Vietnam is currently in the process of spreading the technology throughout the country—a procedure made easier by increased interest from officials at other hospitals who have heard of the dramatic results of the trials in Hanoi...
...think we’ll probably face different issues…in less sophisticated hospitals,” Ringer says, noting that some Vietnamese hospitals probably do not have the right oxygen hookups that can be connected to the CPAP equipment and that doctors will have to learn how to use the technology...
Kieu says that the Ministry of Health’s endorsement of CPAP is important because the ministry is the only source of medical resources and direction in the country. The Vietnamese government has adopted newborn care as a priority and hopes to have a newborn unit in each of its provinces...