Adiela Maria Castiblanco Mandon

Mother Kangaroo Programme in the face of the pandemic COVID-19 Adiela Maria Castiblanco Mandon

The Mother Kangaroo Program (MCP) is the most important contribution of Colombian medicine in the field of neonatology since 1978; it has become the golden strategy in the outpatient management of preterm newborns in Colombia, and within this philosophy it feels the commitment, within the COVID-19 contingency, to establish recommendations and guidelines to ensure its persistence, timeliness, safety of preterm newborns and high-risk newborns. (1) This book will discuss how the Mother Kangaroo Program faces the pandemic with its essential components such as early discharge in the kangaroo position with breastfeeding, which has shown a decrease in hospitalization time, a decrease in serious infections, and most importantly, it empowers the mother in the proper care of her child, which are vital elements of the mother-child attachment. (2)