Trends For The Current Year
Primary Diagnosis At Discharge By Birth Weight (Total)
Outcome Of Delivery For The Current Year
Number Of Deaths At NICU
The MEBCI 2.0 Implementing Partners Are:
In 2021, PATH, Kybele, the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), the University of Manitoba, and AYA Collective, with funding from the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), launched the Making Every Baby Count Initiative (MEBCI 2.0). In 2023, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) joined the consortium, replacing APHRC as a core partner. This partnership brings together organizations with complementary expertise to collaboratively pursue a 15% reduction in neonatal mortality across four high-volume referral hospitals—Ridge, Tema General, Koforidua, and Sunyani. Working closely with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), the initiative seeks to accelerate the progress made under MEBCI 1.0 by strengthening policies, standards, and clinical guidelines for newborn care. It further aims to address critical system gaps by upgrading facility infrastructure and equipment, enhancing clinical and operational practices in the targeted referral hospitals, and improving referral pathways and care coordination across up to 20 district-level facilities. Over a four-year period, the initiative is expected to positively impact the survival and wellbeing of up to 300,000 newborns. The intervention is fully aligned with the GHS National Newborn Strategy and Action Plan (2019–2023), which identifies high institutional neonatal mortality, inadequate advanced care for at-risk, small and sick newborns, and insufficient supportive supervision as urgent national priorities.
