National Neonatology Forum Kerala

NNF prepared the first set of recommendations on neonatal care in India in 1980. In 1982, a task force on Minimum Perinatal Care (1982) with participation of NNF and the government of India envisaged that ‘level I care will be imparted through the trained TBAs and female health workers in the community’. In years that followed, several members of NNF experimented with community-based projects on newborn care; training of TBAs, health workers and nurses; small hospital newborn care models; utilization...