In 2014, the committee prevent up to 450 000 preterm deaths each year if near univer- developed the national guideline on kangaroo mother care sal coverage of the practice is achieved.4 Although success of in line with the WHO kangaroo mother care guideline.10 The kangaroo mother care has been widely reported from hospital- national guideline was designed for health-care providers based interventi [...] Care includes keeping mother and baby Programme of the Ministry of Health together (rooming-in) and moving them to dedicated kangaroo mother care space (corner) of facility and Family Welfare.12 We describe the first 4 years of implementation of the kangaroo mother Facility sta provide advice on kangaroo mother care position and nutrition (breastfeeding or care programme in Bangladesh. [...] The de- neonatal mortality.12,13 The target was to doing and facility visits for direct obser- tails of the training and implementation establish kangaroo mother care at 20% vation of kangaroo mother care services. [...] We also monitored A total of 3 615 453 babies were the percentage of babies receiving born in the kangaroo mother care facili- We used quantitative methods to evalu- kangaroo mother care who were: dis- ties during the study period, of whom ate the implementation of the kangaroo charged as per the protocol, discharged 64 426 (1.8%) had birth weight less mother care programme from Janu- on request, [...] In the first quarter of the im- services, number of trained personnel, rectorate General of Health Services for plementation 4.7% (37/792) of eligible number of live births, number of babies analysis of data from the database.
