SIX years ago, Rodger Brown and his wife Shana Newman-Brown had to improvise so their newborn daughter could have access to a ventilator at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).Baby Malia was diagnosed with respiratory distress syndrome a common breathing disorder that affects newborns and needed to be placed on a ventilator after emergency surgery, but none was available.
