Hsueh made the remarks at a conference on reducing the nation’s neonatal mortality rate, organized by the Taiwan Society of Neonatology and the Taiwan Pediatric Association in Taipei. Minister of Health and Welfare Hsueh Jui-yuan, at the podium, talks about reducing the nation’s neonatal mortality rate at a conference in Taipei yesterday. National Taiwan University Children Hospital’s Division of Neonatology attending physician Chou Hung-chieh (周弘傑) said the neonatal mortality rate has been increasing in the past three years. Another common cause of neonatal death are perinatal respiratory disorders, he said. A neonatal death database should be established to analyze the cases and improve critical issues, he added.
