It's a Girl!!

LSH Bowenpally celebrated the delivery of its first baby this past Thursday, just one day after the hospital opened!  Her name is not known yet...this only happens at the Naming Ceremony weeks later.

I went to the hospital yesterday to meet mother and baby, and see how they're doing.  Both grandmothers were beaming with pride (one early insight is our true customers are really the mother and mother-in-law of the pregnant woman, who makes all decisions about her daughter's maternal health).

Our last two hospitals celebrated its first delivery on the second day of operations (and about 20 outpatients its opening day)... what's incredible is comparing this to our very first hospital -- which opened in December 2005 and had its first delivery three months later, in March 2006.  This hospital now does nearly 150 deliveries per month.  It's exciting to think about how much faster in the curve these new hospitals will be, and the resulting impact on the community.