One year outcome of high-risk newborn infants discharged from the neonatal care unit of the National Maternal and Child Health Center in Cambodia.

Background: In the National Maternal and Child Health Center in Cambodia, about 7,500 newborn infants are born every year. Around 10% of them are admitted to the neonatal care unit. After recovery from the acute phase that presented neonatal care unit admissions, they are discharged even if they are very low birth weight infants, but there is no official follow-up system available after discharge.