IMPACT OF A SPECIAL NEWBORN CARE UNIT ON NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE IN REGIONAL HOSPITAL HIMACHAL PRADESH

Ankur Dharmani, Sonia Kashyap

Abstract


Introduction: Concurrent expansion and scaling-up of clinical care for sick neonates is essential to achieve the reduction in neonatal deaths to meet the millennium development goal for child survival. Aims and objective: Impact of SNCU on neonatal mortality rate. Materials and method: It was an observational study done at Regional hospital Bilaspur catering rural area population of Bilaspur, surrounding areas of Mandi, Hamirpur and Dolan districts. Study includes both inborn and out born babies admitted in SNCU between 2015 to 2019. Result : total deliveries (7468) from Jan 2015 to May 2019, after 2015 the labor room neonatal mortality during the first year of operation was reduced. Conclusion: Creation of a modern SNCU can reduce neonatal mortality.


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SNCU (special newborn care unit), mortality rate.

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