CPAP - Neonatal Care Program
There are 1.6 million babies born in Vietnam every year. 128,000 are born premature. Half of premature babies suffer from respiratory distress, and up to 30% of premature babies with respiratory distress will suffocate without the help of a simple machine called CPAP - Continuous Positive Air Pressure. Approximately 20,000 babies every year will die for a lack of CPAP, a basic piece of medical equipment standard in every U.S. hospital.

ICAN, The East Meets West Foudation, and Project Vietnam of the American Academy of Pediatrics have formed a partnership to save the lives of the very smallest babies. We will provide hospitals with this life-saving device, which is designed by an American engineer and manufactured in Vietnam. The CPAP unit gives premature babies with respiratory distress gentle breaths of air - just enough to inflate their lungs for a few days until they can breath on their own. Our goal in 2005 is to install hundreds of new CPAP machines in hospitals all over Vietnam. A CPAP machine made by our partner in Vietnam cost only $1000 - less than one-tenth the cost of one imported from the U.S.

Can you help? Your donation will bring a baby the gentle breath of life. Call 408-509-8788 to find out more or to donate.

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Vitamin K program
ICAN collaborates with Project Vietnam (American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 4) in providing Vitamin K injections for newborns at two pilot locations in Vietnam: Hanoi and Ha Tay. Vitamin K helps blood coagulate so that a person will not bleed to death. The most common bleeding form exhibited by newborns in Vietnam is hemorrhaging of the brain. In Vietnam, it is estimated that 2,000 babies annually suffer from brain hemorrhaging as a result of Vitamin K deficiency. Each newborn requires only one injection, which costs a mere $1. Your donations are well worth the effort to stamp out this cause of death for newborns.

• Donation Acknowledgement from Project Vietnam (PDF)
• A newsletter from Project Vietnam
• To learn more about Project Vietnam, visit their website: www.projectvietnam.net

Tue Tinh Duong Free Clinic
ICAN has been organizing campaigns and activities to raise fund for Tue Tinh Duong, a free clinic for the poor in Hue - Thua Thien (Vietnam). The clinic has been in service for 15 years, helping thousands of children, and now is in need of a new facility. Click on following link for details:

+ Tue Tinh Duong Page