DAR ES SALAAM, March 12 -- THE Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and AIDS has issued guidelines to all hospitals in the country to follow Parliaments guidelines on strengthening mother and child health programs.

Speaking today in Dar es Salaam when the committee visited Amana Referral Hospital, the Committees Chairman Dr Johanes Lukumay commended the hospital for strengthening newborn care with an innovative approach to caring for newborns.

“I am very happy to see how good the newborn ward is in this hospital. The current policy emphasizes a procedure called “Zero Separation”, meaning that when a baby is born, he is very close to his mother. Here they also use the Kangaroo Mother Care method, where the baby is...