Hello everyone, my name is Alma Bolias, and I am the vice president of section IV-A.

It is my
great honor to welcome you to today’s event.

I want to begin by telling you a little about today’s event, our mission is to
______________________________________.We are a group of young leaders who aimed at
improving newborn care and helping neonatal mortality. By raising awareness of these issue, we
hope to give students the tools to take action to create positive change on their campuses and in
their larger communities.

Today’s event is entitled Unang Yakap. The event will address a new program to reduce
neonatal deaths in the country,. We’re here today to start the discussion and to begin to think
about how we—as individuals, and as nurses, can be involved in ensuring the spread of

The Department of Health embarked on Essential Newborn Care , a new program to address
neonatal deaths in the country. Under the umbrella of the Unang Yakap Campaign, Essential
Newborn Care is an evidenced based strategic intervention aimed at improving newborn care and
helping cub neonatal mortality.
The Essential Newborn Care package is a four-step newborn care time-bound intervention
undertaken to lessen newborn death.

1. Immediate and thorough drying to stimulate breathing after delivery of the baby
2. Provision of appropriate thermal care through mother and newborn skin-to skin contact
maintaining a delivery room temperature of 25-28 degrees centigrade and wrapping the newborn
with clean, dry cloth.
3. Properly timed clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord, (1-3 minutes or until cord pulsation
stops)
4. Non-separation of the newborn and mother for early breast-feeding. Immediate latching on
and initiation of breastfeeding within first hour after birth.
Post-natal care required within 24 hours after birth also includes

 Cord care
 Breastfeeding
 Vitamin K injection
 Eye prophylaxis
 Delayed bathing until 6 hours of life
 BCG and first dose of Hepatitis B Immunization
  Newborn screening

The Essential Newborn Care Package aims to reduce newborn mortality rate from 13 deaths (2006
FPS, NSO) to 10 per 1000 live births by 2015.
Unang Yakap aims to save newborn lives.

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