Intervention - Sick Newborn Care Units
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An initiative
to improve the quality of facility based newborn care.
• SNCUs are special
newborn units in larg shospitals generally at district level meant to reduce
the case fatality among sick newborns, wither bron within the hospital or
outside including home delivery.
•
The SNCU
treatment and training centre also acts as the teaching and training hub for
imparing skills of newborn care.
•
9 SNCUs
has been made functional in Rajasthan, MP and Odisha, 4 more will be
operationalized by the end of this year in Bihar and MP
• NIPI works with
Newborn Child Resource Centre in Kolkata, which has developed guidelines and a
#D guide for SNCU construction.
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