The Irish Neonatal Health Alliance – empowerment, education, partnership

Over 15 million babies are born too early, too sick and too small in the world every year. One million of these babies die. In Ireland over 4,500 babies are born prematurely annually; that’s one baby every 116 minutes. Preterm birth is an unexpected event for the majority of families and its impact on both the family and infant can last a lifetime. It forces families to re-evaluate their expectations and hopes for their children, disempowers parents of their parenting role and its sequelae can have far reaching consequences.

Mandy C. Daly
Director of Advocacy and Policy Making, Irish Neonatal Health Alliance (INHA)