The current study was conducted to correlate the level of DNA damage with multiorgan dysfunction (MOD) in perinatal asphyxia. Among the 80 cases with MOD, 25% each of the babies had five and four organ system involvement , while 23.8% of babies had involvement of 3 systems and 26.3% had 2 organ system dysfunction. The DNA damage increased with the number of systems involved. The comet tail leng...