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Abstract
The newborn infant may be exposed to a number of critical situations that may be associated with increased morbidity if not mortality.
Neonatal morbidity and mortality are important public health problems in developing countries . The neonatal period is considered highly vulnerable time for an infant, who is completing many of the physiologic adjustment required for extra uterine existence .
The aim of this study was to compare retrospectively mortality rate in the last two years in (NICU) of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza – Palestine as well as to identify, analyze and evaluate various risk factors. Measures will be implemented in order to improve the neonatal morbidity and mortality rates.
The study was carried on along the period of two years 2009 - 2010, in NICU of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza- Palestine. The study included 2517 high risk neonates admitted in NICU.
Respiratory distress was the major, serious, and most common cause of neonatal mortality. Congenital anomalies is the second common cause of death in NICU of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza-Palestine, neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is on the other had the most favorable survival rate (97.7%).
Effective preventive strategies to reduce such problems should be based on accurate information about causes and predisposing factors contributing to high rates of neonatal morbidity and mortality.
Improving the obstetric care and intensive care for preterm. Low birth weight neonates will substantially reduces the mortality in AL-Shifa hospital ,yet, the siege implemented by Israel over Gaza result in decrease in the medical supplies important for diagnosis & management of neonatal diseases.
Also, using prohibited weapons by Israel may be the cause of rising incidence of congenital anomalies among neonates born in Gaza.