Infant and Neonatal Mortality

This is a welcome step to revise MBBS curriculum and to make it more relevant to our national needs. The country, at this time is facing a very high infant and neonatal mortality to which malnutrition among the children contributes significantly. We are also striving hard to fulfill our global commitments like achieving MDG goals for child survival and containment of HIV. However, i was surprised to note that child health including newborn health is completely missing from the curriculum given on the website. Also child nutrition (early and exclusive breastfeeding and timely complementary feeding) is not included here. We are facing a lack of understanding and skills among the medical graduates for these issued for quite long times, once more we will miss the opportunity to address our needs in the revised curiculum.