<p>The warmer, in the form of a small sleeping bag, not only keeps infants warm for hours, but also helps protect them from hypothermia, a reduction in core body temperature below 95 degree Fahrenheit (35 degree Celsius).<br /><br />"As a sleeping bag, the warmer swaddles the baby with a wax pouch in an adjacent compartment that is heated via an electrical heater," GE Healthcare vice-president Mike Barber said in a statement here.<br /><br />The $16-billion company, a subsidiary of General Electric Company (GE), will distribute the product in India from March 2011 . <br /><br />Founded by a team of engineers and business graduates from Stanford and Harvard Universities, the US-based Embrace aims to give every child an equal chance for a healthy life through an innovative low-cost infant warmer.<br /><br />The Embrace infant warmer is priced about $200 or one percent of conventional incubators that cost up to $20,000. It also works on batteries.<br /><br />"As we are focused on the healthy-imagination tenets of reducing cost while improving quality and access through local solutions, the partnership with Embrace offers us an opportunity to provide maternal-infant care to check infant mortality," Barber said.<br /><br />About 20 million low birth weight babies are born each year, mostly in the developing world, and are prone to hypothermia due to insufficient fat beneath the skin.<br /><br />"The infant warmer is one potential solution to help keep babies warm and address the risks of hypothermia," Embrace chief executive Jane Chen said in the statement.<br /><br />In alignment with the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, GE is focusing its efforts on MDG 4, reducing by two-thirds the under-five mortality rate by 2015.<br /><br />According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 50 percent of global births occur in underserved urban settings where access to affordable technology remains limited.</p>
<p>The warmer, in the form of a small sleeping bag, not only keeps infants warm for hours, but also helps protect them from hypothermia, a reduction in core body temperature below 95 degree Fahrenheit (35 degree Celsius).<br /><br />"As a sleeping bag, the warmer swaddles the baby with a wax pouch in an adjacent compartment that is heated via an electrical heater," GE Healthcare vice-president Mike Barber said in a statement here.<br /><br />The $16-billion company, a subsidiary of General Electric Company (GE), will distribute the product in India from March 2011 . <br /><br />Founded by a team of engineers and business graduates from Stanford and Harvard Universities, the US-based Embrace aims to give every child an equal chance for a healthy life through an innovative low-cost infant warmer.<br /><br />The Embrace infant warmer is priced about $200 or one percent of conventional incubators that cost up to $20,000. It also works on batteries.<br /><br />"As we are focused on the healthy-imagination tenets of reducing cost while improving quality and access through local solutions, the partnership with Embrace offers us an opportunity to provide maternal-infant care to check infant mortality," Barber said.<br /><br />About 20 million low birth weight babies are born each year, mostly in the developing world, and are prone to hypothermia due to insufficient fat beneath the skin.<br /><br />"The infant warmer is one potential solution to help keep babies warm and address the risks of hypothermia," Embrace chief executive Jane Chen said in the statement.<br /><br />In alignment with the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, GE is focusing its efforts on MDG 4, reducing by two-thirds the under-five mortality rate by 2015.<br /><br />According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 50 percent of global births occur in underserved urban settings where access to affordable technology remains limited.</p>