The Golden Hour - Implementing and evaluating a package of interventions to improve newborn care in the first hour of life in a public sector hospital in Zimbabwe.

Reducing neonatal mortality remains a global priority, yet progress has stalled in many low-resource settings. Low-cost interventions such as delayed cord clamping (DCC) and early skin to skin care (ESSC) are known to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality but implementation remains inconsistent. Prior to project initiation, Sally Mugabe Central Hospital, Zimbabwe's busiest tertiary maternity unit had no documented DCC or ESSC conducted with practice limited by staffing pressures and infrastructural challenges. We aimed to implement a context-specific Golden Hour care bundle to improve newbor

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