Table 2.

Neonatal near miss rate and neonatal mortality rate

Combination of criteria	No. of neonates
Birth weight less than 1500 and APGAR score less than 7 at 5 min	30
Birth weight less than 1500 and gestational age less than 30 weeks	13
Gestational age less than 30 weeks and APGAR score less than 7 at 5 min	3
All three	5
Total near miss newborns admitted in NICU during study period	240
Neonatal near miss rate during study period	87.6 per 1000 live births (4 times higher than deaths)
Total no. of deaths during study period	60
Neonatal mortality rate (NMR) during study period	22 per 1000 live births