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Approximately 102,000 babies die due to complications including respiratory distress, congenital malformations, and sepsis [2]. Another contributor includes the under-served masses having poor nutrition and limited health accessibility. Women of these areas with low BMI were at a higher risk of preterm birth [3]. Also, the past practice of separating the sick babies from their mothers led to poor neonatal health outcomes.
Many programs were integrated into the Pakistani health system without systematic evaluation of newborn components. Despite the efforts, why newborn survival is still lagging? This remains a questionable matter for all of us. Were the health policies inadequate or their implementation was incomprehensive? Given the circumstances, UNICEF along with Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination took the initiative to spread awareness regarding prematurity crisis in the country during November 2021 which acted as a driving force for improvising mother and child care [3]. The theme was “Zero Separation Act Now! Keep parents and babies born too soon together”.
Despite the efforts regarding neonates in the local hospitals, we still face challenges like unstable political insurgency, raised poverty, and hard-to-reach rural masses [4]. Poor nutrition of pregnant females requires special attention and interventional strategies to achieve substantial improvement level. Health professionals being observant of their oath to save mothers and children are unable to cater the situation with limited resources at hand [5].
However, public health enforcement laws regarding child health care needs instant implementation across the country to increase survival rate of premature babies. Community-based awareness and basic health centers equipped with KMC might serve the purpose, but a lot more is required to improve the quality of care for mothers and newborns in the country. Hopefully, we will ace it in not too distant future!
- UNICEF (2022) Global goals for health and wellbeing cannot be achieved without reduction in preterm births and child deaths.
- Khan A, Kinney MV, Hazir T, Hafeez A, Wall SN, et al. (2022) Newborn survival in Pakistan: A Decade of Change and future implications. Health Policy Plan 3: iii72-iii87.
- UNICEF (2021) Preterm Birth Complications is one of the Main Causes for Under Five Child Mortality in Pakistan.
- UNICEF (2017) Kangaroo Mother Care helping preterm babies survive.
- Furdon SA (2022) Prematurity. Practice Essentials, Background, Pathophysiology.
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