How to protect the health of newborns?

Establish and improve the cooperative network for the treatment of critically ill newborns, and improve the network for the treatment, consultation and referral of critically ill newborns with graded responsibility, up-and-down linkage, orderly response and efficient operation. Strengthen the ability to protect critically ill newborns, cooperate closely with obstetrics and pediatrics, strengthen personnel training, and popularize appropriate technologies such as early basic health care for newborns, kangaroo care for premature infants, and neonatal resuscitation. Strengthen newborn health management, strengthen quality services during pregnancy, prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum, and ensure the health of the fetus and newborn.

In addition, the Measures for the Administration of Neonatal Disease Screening stipulates that the diseases of neonatal disease screening in China include congenital hypothyroidism, phenylketonuria and other neonatal genetic metabolic diseases and hearing impairment. The health department shall, according to the needs, adjust the national screening diseases for neonatal diseases. The health administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may, according to the actual situation of medical resources, people's needs and disease incidence in their respective administrative areas, increase the number of neonatal disease screening diseases in their respective administrative areas.