special correspondent fred de sam lazaro reports from hanoi. this report aired on the pbs program religion and ethics news-weekly and is another in his series, "agents for change." >> reporter: it's not unusual to see two, three, even four newborns crammed into the same crib at this busy government hospital in hanoi. >> they're the luckier ones, born in good health >> reporter: for those with lungs infected or not fully developed because they were premature, the struggle, quite literally for air, is that much harder. sometimes they must share still, the prognosis for such fragile infants is far better today than it was about a decade ago, says the unit's supervising doctor ngoc diep pham. >> ( translated ): before 2000, the mortality rate in of the neonatal intensive care unit was 15%. last year it was less than 2%. >> reporter: anti-biotics and have helped as has staff training but a big reason she says is that in recent years they've been able to install reliable new equipment to...