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preterm-babies.gifResearchers from Oxford Centre for Health Economics find that people in UK have to spend nearly £939m every year.

In their study, the researchers estimated how much the people in UK will have to spend during first 18 years of those preterm babies who born in 06.

They calculated healthcare, education and off work costs, which the parents of these babies have to pay for them.

They say that considerable increase in funding for research to find ways to delay preterm births can save nearly £260m every year.

Tommy’s, the well-known baby Charity, funded for the study that was first of its kind to find out the cost to public on such births.

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