PATH Safe Delivery Kit

The Path Kit contents are clean, new, and packaged in a clearly labeled plastic bag or cardboard box that is adapted for local settings. A basic clean-delivery kit includes the following five essential elements:

• A piece of soap for cleaning the birth attendant’s hands and the mother’s perineum.

• A plastic sheet about one square meter for use as a clean delivery surface.

• Clean string for tying the umbilical cord (usually two pieces).

• A clean razor blade for cutting the cord.

• Pictorial instructions that explain how to use each item in the kit.

Pictorial instructions that explain how to use each item in the kit are included.

90% biodegradable, can be disposed of safely in a sealable bag provided with the kit.

PATH conducted a study in partnership with the Tanzania Ministry of Health to evaluate the impact of delivery kits. The results suggested that newborns of mothers who used a kit were 13 times less likely to develop cord infection than were newborns whose mothers did not use a kit. The mothers themselves were three times less likely to develop puerperal sepsis, or genital tract infection, after childbirth.

No known safety hazards are related to this product.