Kangaroo mother care became increasingly popular and gaining pace among the health professionals working for preterm babies in Pakistan [4]. An approach in which the baby is kept close to the mother’s chest wrapped in a blanket. Being a pharmacist at Medicare Hospital, Rawalpindi, I came across families who shared an unspoken connection through their maternal wins and losses. Under the supervision of Dr. Imran, I observed the scaling up of kangaroo mother care (KMC) among critically ill babies in neonatal intensive care unit. Many babies benefitted from this approach due to physical and emotional closeness with their mothers in comparison to babies who were kept in the incubators alone, as shown in the Figure 1.

Despite the efforts regarding neonates in the local hospitals, we still face challenges like unstable political insurgency, raised poverty, and hard-to-reach rural masses [4]. Poor nutrition of pregnant females requires special attention and interventional strategies to achieve substantial improvement level. Health professionals being observant of their oath to save mothers and children are unable to cater the situation with limited resources at hand [5].

However, public health enforcement laws regarding child health care needs instant implementation across the country to increase survival rate of premature babies. Community-based awareness and basic health centers equipped with KMC might serve the purpose, but a lot more is required to improve the quality of care for mothers and newborns in the country. Hopefully, we will ace it in not too distant future!