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| Year : 1993 | Volume
: 47
| Issue : 9 | Page : 222-5 |
Neonatal mortality in Meerut district.
SK Garg, VN Mishra, JV Singh, M Bhatnagar, H Chopra, RB Singh
Dept. of S.P.M., Medical College, Meerut,
Correspondence Address:
S K Garg
Dept. of S.P.M., Medical College, Meerut
PMID: 8112786
A study of neonatal mortality in Meerut district revealed an infant mortality rate of 50.1 per 1000 live births. Neonatal mortality accounted for 37.8% of infant mortality with a neonatal mortality rate of 19.0 per 1000 live births. 90.5% of these neonates were delivered at home largely by untrained personnel (57.2%). Only 28.6% of these neonates were treated by qualified doctors and only 30.9% of their mothers were fully immunized against tetanus. At least 2/3rd of neonatal mortality was due to exogenous factors with tetanus neonatorum and septicaemia being the principal causes of mortality each accounting for a mortality rate of 4.7 per 1000 live births.
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