i) The study mentions about a State verbal autopsy tool, but no details of it could be found either in the text or the references.

ii) We want to know source of individual death information, which was crucial for timely execution of verbal autopsy tool. What was number and qualification of the field workers? There is no mention of parental consent before collecting the information.

iii) Authors mention that clinical summaries of babies were collected from health posts near their residence. Were they public/private hospitals/clinics? What if they refused to provide confidential data to field workers? Even if they had access to individual case sheets of all babies who died, how did they interpret it in the absence of a pediatrician on site?

iv) The study mentions an infant mortality rate of 5.2 per 1000 live births, which is much below the national average. Kindly elaborate.

v) Discussion section mentions about the 108 neonatal ambulance service, but the number 108 is for general ambulance and 102 is the number for dedicated maternal and neonatal/infantile services.