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Neonatal Palliative Care remains very much in it’s infancy in India. While the Neonatal Mortality rate (NMR) is slowly declining, we still record the highest number of stillborns in the world. The Children’s Palliative Care (DFID) project has instigated the development of this speciality, and now many Neonatal Academics are collaborating in developing guidelines for neonatal units across the country, in line with Tamil Nadu, India’s Call to Action—‘Child Survival and Development for Every Child in India.’
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Muckaden, M.A. (2020). India. In: Mancini, A., Price, J., Kerr-Elliott, T. (eds) Neonatal Palliative Care for Nurses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31877-2_34
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