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More than 50% of infant deaths in India occur during the neonatal period. High priority therefore needs to be given to improving the survival of newborns. A large number of neonatal deaths have their origin in the perinatal period and are mainly determined by the health and nutritional status of the mother, the quality of care during pregnancy and delivery, and the immediate care of the newborn at birth. Main causes of neonatal mortality are birth asphyxia, respiratory problems, and infections, especially tetanus. Most such deaths occur among low birthweight babies. Hypothermia, undernutrition, and mismanaged breast feeding may also indirectly contribute to neonatal mortality. Community-based studies have, however, demonstrated that most neonatal mortality can be affordably prevented through primary health care. Efforts are underway to expand the health care infrastructure, but the outreach of maternal and child health care remains unsatisfactory especially in rural areas.
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PMID:Primary health care of the newborn baby. 1231 28

The records of 168 children managed for burns in a teaching hospital in northwestern Nigeria, between April 1998 and March 2003, were assessed to determine the factors that are responsible for high rates of morbidity and mortality in paediatric burns. The causes of burns were hot water in 86 cases (51.2%), flame in 45 (26.8%), hot soup in 32 (19%) and electricity in five (3%). The main complications were wound infections in 109 (64.9%) patients, anaemia in 68 (40.5%), malnutrition in 54 (32.1%), contracture in 50 (29.8%), persistent hypothermia in 27 (16.1%), tetanus in 14 (8.3%) and one case (0.6%) of massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding, possibly as a result of Curling's ulcer.
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PMID:Paediatric burns: management problems in a teaching hospital in north western Nigeria. 1754 Jan 1


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