Over the years, neonatal mortality rate in Ghana has declined at an appreciable rate from a high of 60.1 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1967 to 26.9 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2016.

Recognizing that neonatal mortality rates in Ghana remain unacceptably high, the Ministry of Health developed and launched the Ghana National Newborn Health Strategy and Action Plan for 2014-2018…