%0 Journal Article %T Prematurity: A Major Cause of Early Neonatal Mortality in Ad-din Medical College Hospital %A Farhana Afroz %A Mahmuda Nasrin %A Md Abdul Mannan %A Nandita Nazma %A Nasim Jahan %A Shirin Akter %A Tashmin Farhana %A Zenifer Islam %J Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science %D 2019 %R https://doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v18i3.41634 %X Objective: Early neonatal mortality within the £¿ rst 24 hours contributes substantially to overall neonatal mortality rates. Reliable cause- specific mortality data are limited; thus the estimated proportion of prematurity-related deaths nationally remains questionable. The objective was to determine the presumed causes of neonatal death within the £¿ rst 24 hours in Ad-din Medical College Hospital %U https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJMS/article/view/41634