The National Newborn Week 2020 was observed from 15-21 November 2020.
- The theme of National Newborn Week this year was ‘Quality, Equity, Dignity for every newborn at every health facility and everywhere’.
- According to the Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan, in 2014, India became the first country to launch the India Newborn Action Plan (INAP), in alignment with the Global Every Newborn Action Plan towards eliminating preventable deaths of new-borns and stillbirths.
- In India, the newborn mortality is 23 per 1000 live births as per Sample Registration System (SRS) 2018 and United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME) estimates and SBR (still birth rate) is 4 as per the SRS estimates and about 14 as per the UNIGME estimates.
