CARING PREMATURE NEONATES THROUGH KANGAROO MOTHER CARE; CASES FROM PAKISTAN

Introduction: Change in the subsectors of economy constantly got top need in various models of monetary betterment. In Pakistan progressive governments including the occupant government have tried for poverty mitigation through a few projects. Methodology: The cross-section data is obtained from KMC section of Services Hospital, Lahore. It consists of 142 patients since the inception of KMC procedure in Pakistan. The section maintains necessary data of patients for their analysis and further use. The data is secondary and micro because it obtained from secondary source and provides information about individual patient admitted in the hospital. Results: This part presents the estimates of the proposed model, statistical significance, model selection criteria, and results of test and biological interpretation of the findings. The coefficients of unrestricted model are listed in table 7. The coefficients of age of the mother and gender of the baby are tested using Wald test for their equality in the two equations. The results of the test are given in table 9 & 10. The p-value of Wald test in table 9 is .30 which is higher than our 5% of significance level. Therefore we cannot the reject our null hypothesis that age of mother have similar effect in both equations. In table 10, the p-value of Wald test is above our 5% level of significance. Therefore we cannot reject our null hypothesis that gender of the baby have equal effect in both equations. Conclusion This study analyses the impact of kangaroo mother care on growth of premature new-born babies. It uses cross sectional secondary data from KMC section Services Hospital Lahore, Pakistan. The methodology includes two equation which are estimated jointly using three stage least square method in STATA. The model is firstly estimated without restriction and that proposed conditions are tested for their significance. The significant conditions are then applied in the estimation process. The results found that higher age of the mother has reducing effect on weight of the baby, and the male babies have higher weight on birth and gain weight more quickly as compared to male. KMC, the midpoint of the study, exerts positive impact on the growth of the premature baby. Keywords: Caring, Premature Neonates, Kangaroo Mother Care, Pakista