{"id":1327,"date":"2019-06-07T12:58:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/2020\/12\/23\/six-things-we-learned-from-dr-armida-fernandez\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T21:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:20:33","slug":"six-things-we-learned-from-dr-armida-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/kn-in\/six-things-we-learned-from-dr-armida-fernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Six things we learned from Dr Armida Fernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1989, Dr Fernandez set up Asia’s first milk bank at Sion Hospital. She then went on to start SNEHA<\/a> in the early 1990s with the aim to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and gender-based violence. Routinely treating low-income families coming in with sick, premature infants, she wanted to develop sustainable interventions that would go beyond providing stopgap solutions.<\/p>

Here’s some of what she learned along the way.<\/p>

1. To create impact, work with both systems and communities<\/strong><\/div>

You might have to work with a municipal corporation to improve the quality of a system while simultaneously working with the communities to disseminate knowledge and change behaviour.<\/p>

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