OBJECTIVE:To study the morbidity and the mortality patterns in inborn preterm newborns admitted in NICU at a tertiary care teaching hospital. DESIGN: Retrospective study. The medical records of all the inborn preterm neonates (G. age ≤36W+6 days) who were admitted to the NICU were analyzed by using a pre-set proforma. SETTINGS: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Department of Pediatrics, Adesh Institute of Medical Science & Research Institute (AIMSR) Bathinda, Punjab. The study was carried out over a period of 2 years from January 2012 to December 2014. PARTICIPANTS: 80 preterm neonates who were born in AIMSR and were admitted with some illness to the NICU. OUTCOME: The patterns of the morbidity and the mortality among the preterm neonates who were admitted to the NICU. 'Survival' was defined as the discharge of a live neonate/ infant from the hospital. RESULTS: A total of 80 premature inborn infants were analyzed for the complications they encountered after birth while admitted in NICU. Out of 80 premature babies, 32 (40%) were male and 48 (60%) were female babies. Mean gestational age was and Mean birth weight was. Neonatal hyper-bilirubinemia, HMD/RDS and Neonatal sepsis were the commonest causes of morbidity. Among 80 premature babies 15(18.7%) died. The highest mortality was seen in babies those weighing less than 800 grams (100%). Male mortality is 34.4% and female mortality is 8.3%.