DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i02.004

Pages: 434-439

Every year, four million newborn deaths occur in the world. Ninety-nine percent of these deaths occur in middle- and low-income countries. More than 90% of births and neonatal deaths occur at home, generally with little-to-no involvement of the formal healthcare system. In order to achieve the millennium development goal of reduction in neonatal mortality in resource poor countries with weak primary care health system, it is important to establish a good outreach and home based newborn care by improving home care practices and demand for skilled care at birth. A cross-sectional study was undertaken with a sample size of 101caregiver with newborn of 0 -28 days of age, attending at indoor and outdoor of Pediatrics department in Shaheed Ziaur Rahman medical college hospital, Bogura, Bangladesh. Our aim was to observe perception and practice of essential newborn care among caregivers of newborn babies coming to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital, Bogura. Home delivery was found more in illiterate and rural groups, lower class and lower middle class of economical status. On the other hand educated, upper class and urban group conducted delivery at hospital and clinic. Among the study subjects, though only 77.2% had perceptions about hand washing before delivery but 22.8% practiced it,73.3% had perceptions to use of sterile scissor or blade for cutting cord but only 62.4% used sterile blades, 29.7% used knife and 7.9% used other things practiced to cut the cord.