Embrace Warmer Embrace Warmer How It WorksA steady supply of electricity is lacking in many hospitals in developing countries, adding to problems of limited resources and overcrowding. Premature infants, lacking the ability to maintain their temperature, must be provided warmth for them to survive. The Embrace Warmer is a low-cost solution that maintains the body temperature of premature and low-birth-weight babies at the desired level even with intermittent access to electricity. The Embrace Warmer can also be used for transporting hypothermic newborns.

1. Phoenix Medical Systems (P) Ltd, INDIA
We Work towards reducing child mortality rates and to improve maternal health
Infant Warmer

2. Embrace tied up with Phoenix
Medical Systems in 2015 to
manufacture and market Embrace
Nest globally.
Embrace Innovations is a social
enterprise aiming to provide a line
of innovative, affordable medical
devices for emerging markets,
starting with an infant warmer

3. Hypothermia is a well-known challenge. Hence, we find provision of warmth included as a critical component of care in
standards for equipping facilities of any level providing even basic newborn care.
20,000,000
premature and low birth weight
babies born every year
3,000,000
babies die within 1 month of birth
every year. 8,000,000 in India
Hypothermia
is recognized as a
significant problem
affecting pre-term and low-
birth weight babies

4. Traditional solutions are either unsafe and ineffective,
or expensive and require a constant supply of electricity and trained healthcare
workers
Light bulbs Radiant warmers Traditional incubators
Current Options

5. This picture shows an NICU in a government hospital in India. None of the radiant warmers were being used at the time of the
photograph as there was no power to run these high-wattage machines. One would need significant investment in diesel generators
and fuel. Another challenge is chronic shortage of staff trained well enough to use these sophisticated machines.

6. • Works without continuous power
• Easy to use for low-skilled staff
• Safe – no power near the baby
• Lower staff burden
• Better feeding
• Portable to use anywhere
• Highly affordable – several babies with
one heater
Provide warmth
anywhere, everywhere

7. Embrace Nest™ has three components

8. 1. Heat WarmPak in
AccuTemp heater*
3. Place baby in
BabyWrap*
2. Place WarmPak in
sanitized BabyWrap*
Maintains a temperature of
~37C for 4-6 hours*
*Please see product brochure or manual for details on usage and performance
How it works

9. Provide warmth
anywhere, everywhere
A versatile solution with many uses, Embrace
Nest helps complete the warm chain that is critical to
newborns’ well-being. Doctors have adopted it for many
uses in the journey from birth to home whenever they are
unable to use traditional equipment and kangaroo mother
care.

10. Embrace Nest saved the life of this
850g baby at Government Hospital,
Bangalore.
Sundari’s baby was just 850g when
placed in Embrace Nest, the only
available option to maintain his
temperature.
The doctors told us that without
Embrace, the baby would have died.
Fortunately, the baby survived and
was discharged from the hospital a
few weeks after this picture was
taken.

11. Many radiant warmers
in this government hospital were
in disrepair. The Embrace Nest
is often used as a back-up in
NICU when the load exceeds
the hospital’s capacity.

12. Maputo Central Hospital,
Mozambique faces frequent power-cuts and as a result, the
radiant warmers in NICU are unable to provide continuous
warmth to babies. The Embrace Nest is used as a back-up to
the radiant warmers in NICU during times of power-cuts.

13. At this government hospital in Kerala, India, we
saw this grandmother coming from post-natal ward by herself to
switch the WarmPak™ for her grandchild. Embrace Nest’s
simplicity allows mothers and families to provide warmth reliably
in conjunction with Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) with minimal
oversight from an often over-burdened nursing staff.

14. Anita’s 2.35 kg baby
born in a government
community health
centre, Rajasthan, India
was significantly
hypothermic. But was
discharged home safely after
a night in Embrace Nest. A
22-year-old mother who had
two failed pregnancies, Anita
is seen here proudly cradling
her healthy baby 10 days
later at home.

15. Kirthi had lost her first baby. She gave birth a second baby girl who weighed just 1.6
kilograms. Embrace provided critical warmth for the baby’s survival. Five months later, the
child was healthy and had grown significantly.

16. An orphan who has suffered all
through her life, Ayato was
thankful for being able to take care
of her premature baby at a
nonprofit hospital in Uganda.
Embrace provides the ability to
bring high-quality care within
reach of the underprivileged.

17. For the first time ever,
Embrace Nest was
used to provide warmth
to triplets, seen here
sleeping with their
mother in Kabul,
Afghanistan.

18. Baby Long weighed less than 1 kilogram
when he was rescued by an orphanage in
Beijing. The orphanage staff attribute his
survival to the warmth provided by a
month of care in Embrace. Baby Long,
now a toddler, has just been adopted by a
family in the US.
mktg@betmedical.com

19. Mexico
Guatemala India
China
Afghanistan
Nepal
Uganda
Zambia
Mozambique
Somalia
Ghana
South Sudan
Embrace Nest is now in use around the world through partnerships

20. McKinsey
Social Innovation
Video Award
Gold Award
for
Social Impact
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Global awards and recognition

21. CNN interviewer:
Have you
ever seen
this gadget
save a
baby’s life?
Dr. Asha Benakappa:*
Yes.
*Professor of Pediatrics,
Vani Vilas Government Medical College
Bangalore
“This unit can be used in the growing nursery
where there are VLBW [Very Low Birth
Weight], ELBW [Extremely Low Birth Weight]
babies. Mothers can depend on this when they
can relax 2-3 hours instead of KMC [Kangaroo
Mother Care].
In the post-natal wards of a tertiary care
centre, e.g., SAT Hospital, there are babies who
are with their mother till they achieve their BW
(birth weight). It will be useful if the
paramedical staff / ANMs [Auxiliary Nurse
Midwives] can be trained to use this; it will be
highly effective to reduce morbidity &
mortality.
We use it in our NICU also when we find
short of radiant warmers, when the bed
occupancy increases.
It can be recommended for use in paediatric
surgery theatre, ECHO, MRI room (if
compatible with MRI), and transport to other
hospitals.”
Feedback from SAT Hospital,
Trivandrum Medical College
Medical practitioners using our products are our best advocates

22. I'm involved in a nonprofit that does work in Guatemala,
Benin, India, and some of the extremely poor
indigenous communities we serve could seriously use
this. I'd love to obtain a few of these to bring to
Guatemala on an upcoming trip this fall.
--XeniJardin, BoingBoing Editor, San Francisco
We are a nonprofit program providing
health care to fragile infants. We have
read about your product, and we want
one! PLEASE! We only have one
incubator, and it is almost always broken
or not working as we have continual
power problems. Help!
--Valerie, Morgan Jaybe Infant Care
Center, Honduras
The majority of premature babies are never given a
chance to make it out of the hospital. Because there
are no incubators the babies are left to die. They are
put on a table or directly in the trash without the
comforting touch of their mothers in those final
moments. THIS is why I am interested in Embrace!
-- Crystal, Uganda
We operate an orphanage in Southern Sudan
and see premature babies on a regular basis.
The warmer that you designed would be a
miracle worker for us to have in our clinic. Are
these available for purchase yet? If so, we
would be VERY interested in having one. -
Amy, Sudan
Recently, a woman from the
community we serve gave birth to
a two pound baby girl…we had to
spend a large portion of our health
project budget to keep the baby
on an incubator at the nearest full-
service hospital (two hours away).
I would be interested in purchasing
your Embrace incubators for use in
our soon-to-be-established
community health center. -- Haley,
Dominican Republic
Global Need
My (adopted ) daughter was thought to be 3 months
premature when they found her at the side of the
road. They brought her to the orphanage, but no-one
thought she would live. It was 97 degrees outside but
the little baby was suffering from hypothermia as she
was so underweight and could not produce any of her
own body heat. By some miracle a mercy mission
team from a hospital 8 hours drive away were visiting
the orphanage that very day. Thankfully they saved
her life . I was wondering if it is possible for us to
purchase the warmer now and start getting them into
some of the orphanages and care homes? - Leslie,
China

23. Phoenix drives to work towards a future where every Newborn has access to
high - quality Medical care