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Overall admissions surged by 76 percent in six years, preterm admissions increased by 41%. During the same period delivery load grew by 24.7%. Majority 64.9% were full-term; 50.4% (6279\/12449) of neonates were low birthweight (LBW; &lt;2.5 kg) and 3.8% were Extreme LBW (ELBW; &lt;1.0 kg). Among intramural, out of 20.2% preterm, 1.8% were &lt;28 week; compared to 1.5% &lt;28 week and 14.1% preterm in extramural. The intrauterine growth restriction rate was 17.6% for intramural and 19.3% for extramural, respectively. The most common morbidities were prematurity (40.2% &amp; 27%), jaundice (32.6% &amp; 27.5%), RDS and respiratory problems (19.2% &amp; 9.8%), sepsis (11.3% &amp; 23.5%), and perinatal asphyxia (6.2% and 7.5%) among inborn and outborn respectively. Total 798 (6.4%) newborns died, 10.5% of all deaths happened within 24 hours; mortality was very high amongst ELBW (110\/205, 53.7%) and very preterm infants &lt;28 weeks (81\/135,60%). Only 993 inborn and 18 outborn received antenatal corticosteroids, with only 383 inborn and 4 outborn receiving four doses of Dexamethasone. Low gestational age, LBW, less of antenatal corticosteroids, outborns, male sex, and congenital deformity were all found to have a significant association with death (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Preterm accounts for a considerable majority of our total admissions. Greater efforts and investment in better prenatal care, infrastructure, therapeutic facilities, manpower, and periodic training and review of staff nurses are all urgently needed to address the extremely high burden of illnesses and mortality among hospitalized newborns; otherwise, lowering the NMR will remain an unattainable goal.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/jfmpc.jfmpc_2025_21","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,30]],"date-time":"2022-06-30T10:17:00Z","timestamp":1656584220000},"page":"3058-3065","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Burden of disease and survival rate amongst hospitalized newborns in Himalayan region in North India"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Rajender","family":"Singh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mangla","family":"Sood","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Parveen","family":"Bhardwaj","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ishaan","family":"Sood","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"276","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"353","DOI":"10.1038\/s41586-019-1545-0","article-title":"Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017","volume":"574","author":"Burstein","year":"2019","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B2-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1294","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(08)60564-4","article-title":"Every death counts: Use of mortality audit data for decision making to save the lives of mothers, babies, and children in South Africa","volume":"371","year":"2008","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"B3-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"196","DOI":"10.1177\/0973217920050302","article-title":"National rural health mission and reduction of neonatal mortality rate","volume":"19","author":"Mathur","year":"2005","journal-title":"J Neonatol"},{"key":"B5-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1591","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)31050-3","article-title":"Mapping neonatal and under-5 mortality in India","volume":"395","author":"Kumar","year":"2020","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"B8-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"838","DOI":"10.18203\/2349-3291.ijcp20201140","article-title":"Institutional births analysis from labour room registries in North Indian hilly state","volume":"7","author":"Sood","year":"2020","journal-title":"Int J Contemp Pediatr"},{"key":"B12-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"299","DOI":"10.32677\/IJCH.2020.v07.i07.005","article-title":"Pattern of neonatal morbidity and mortality: A retrospective study in a special newborn care unit, Mumbai","volume":"7","author":"Randad","year":"2020","journal-title":"Indian J Child Health"},{"key":"B13-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"107","DOI":"10.3126\/jnps.v40i2.29469","article-title":"Morbidity pattern and hospital outcome of neonates admitted in tertiary care hospital, Nepal","volume":"40","author":"Nepal","year":"2020","journal-title":"J Nepal Paediatr Soc"},{"key":"B14-20240828","first-page":"62","article-title":"gender differences in perception and care-seeking for illness of newborns in rural Uttar Pradesh","volume":"27","author":"Willis","year":"2009","journal-title":"India J Heal Popul Nutr"},{"key":"B15-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"228","DOI":"10.4103\/2348-3334.142983","article-title":"Neonatal morbidity and mortality of sick newborns admitted in a teaching hospital of Uttarakhand","volume":"1","author":"Rakholia","year":"2014","journal-title":"CHRISMED J Heal Res"},{"key":"B18-20240828","first-page":"1610","volume":"382","year":"2013","journal-title":"The Lancet. 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