Facility-Based Newborn Deaths at a Referral Tertiary Hospital in North-Central Nigeria during the Sustainable Development Goal Era: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis.

Background: Nigeria has the largest number of global under-five deaths and almost half of these occur in the newborn period in an almost 50:50 ratio across hospital facilities and communities. We examine and describe risk factors for newborn mortality at a busy neonatal unit of a referral tertiary hospital in North-central Nigeria.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of all newborn admissions to the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital between September 2018 and March 2020.