This week aims to reinforce the importance of neonatal health as a priority area of the health sector.
It aims to reduce infant mortality by improving health care conditions for infants in the neonatal period.
The theme of this week is ‘Safety, Quality and Nurturing Care – Every Newborn’s Birth Right’.
India Newborn Action Plan (INAP) was launched in September 2014.
It aims for accelerating the reduction of preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths in the country – with the goal of attaining ‘Single Digit Neo-Natal Mortality Rate (NMR) by 2030’ and ‘Single Digit Still Birth Rate (SBR) by 2030’.