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ABSTRACT Background: An estimated 15 million babies are born pre term every year. Approximately 1 million children die each year due to complications of preterm birth. Nearly 3.5 million babies in India are born too early, 1.7 million babies born with birth defects, 40% of neonatal deaths happen during labour or within 24 hours due to the Pre-maturity (35%), neonatal infections (33%), birth asphyxia (20%) and congenital malformations (9%). Results: It was identified that total newborn admissions in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Intramural) and Referral Newborn Unit (Extramural) were 1128 from January 2022 to December 2022 at Rajah Muthiah Medical College and Hospital, Chidambaram, Cuddalore District, Tamilnadu. The prevalence of preterm birth was 456 (40.42%). In which, 271(59.42%) of them were moderate to late preterm (32-37 weeks), 144 (31.57%) were early preterm (28-32 weeks) and 41 (8.99%) were extreme preterm birth (<28 weeks), totally, 353 were inborn and 103 were outborn. The common Health Problems of Preterm Neonates was assessed among 100 preterm neonates and it was found to be feeding problems (100%), hypothermia (92%), breathing problems (62%), Congenital Anomalies (7%), Neural Tube Defects (2%), skin infection (2%), Meningitis (1%), Birth injury- (1%) and Down syndrome (1%).