INDIA NEWBORN ACTION PLAN (INAP)

India Newborn Action Plan (INAP), launched in 2014 in response to Global quot;Every Newborn Action plan (ENAP)quot;, is a strategy to reduce the preventable newborn deaths and still-births.

Objectives: INAP aims to achieve a “Single-digit Neonatal Mortality Rate and Single-digit Stillbirth Rate by 2030quot;.

Components: INAP is implemented within the RMNCH + A framework with 6 major components:

a. Pre-conception and Antenatal care including adolescent friendly health services, reproductive health and family planning, antenatal care and counseling for birth-preparedness.

b. Care during labour and child-birth, by safe-delivery practices, timely referral of high risk cases, emergency obstetric care and management of preterm labour and immediate newborn care including neonatal resuscitation.

c. Care of healthy newborn, by home visits, exclusive breast feeding, clean postnatal practices and immunization.

d. Care of sick and small newborn, by Kangaroo mother care, Feeding support, IMNCI based interventions and facilities of Newborn stabilization units (NBSU) at block level, Special newborn care unit (SNCU) at district levels and Neonatal intensive care units (NICU) at regional level.

e. Care beyond newborn survival by screening for birth defects and follow-up of high-risk babies for developmental delay.

Progress: INAP envisages use of SDG targets, e.g. NMR and SBR to review the project every 5 years, apart from other dashboard indicators of global Every newborn action plan (ENAP), e.g.: (a) minimum 4 antenatal care visits, (b) skilled birth attendant at delivery, (c) postnatal care within 2 days to mother and baby ad, (d) establishment of SNCUs.

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