Nepal has a history of vertical health programs directed to specific health problems. Even after integration of health services, Nepal made significant progress towards Maternal and Child Health but now a missing link, i.e. Newborn Health has been noticed. As evidenced by the studies two-thirds of total infant deaths occur in neonatal period. And we already have the cost effective solutions to reduce neonatal death. Reducing neonatal death is crucial to meet meet MDG 4.Nepal has made National Neonatal Health Strategy on the year 2004 which has stated multi pronged interventions to achieve Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015.
Some of the recent studies says if Nepal achieves any of the 8 MDGs i.e. MDG 4.Various types of pilot programs were initiated in Nepal like Morang Innovative Neonatal Intervention(MINI), CB MNC, Access, LIBON, CRADLE by GoN with support from different agencies like Save the Children, JSI Nepal Family Health Program , Plan, CARE and UNICEF.
Now, Community Based Newborn Care Program CB NCP is implemented in 10 districts of Nepal.
I am happy to share you that I am currentlyworking to train Community Level Health Volunteers and Workers on CB NCP in Chitwan district.
