Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
The team of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is highly skilled in the specialist care of ill or premature newborn infants or those newborn requiring close care and monitoring. The NICU team has neonatologists, pediatricians, pediatric surgeons and nurses trained in newborn care round the clock.
The NICU provides care of babies born to “high risk” mothers, low birth weight babies, premature babies, sick newborn babies, babies requiring sustained respiratory support and babies requiring Post- operative care.
Treatments and Procedures:
- Management of premature babies
- Management of sick newborn
- Management of low birth weight babies
- Management of babies born to “high risk” mothers
- Care of babies requiring ventilation and sustained respiratory support
- Management and support of newborn during transport in and out of the hospital
- Neonatal surgery
- Post- operative Management following surgery of the new born baby
- Newborn screening for congenital defects
- Newborn screening for inborn errors of metabolism
- Training parents in newborn care post discharge from NICU
- Immunisation services
- Antenatal counselling when newborn problems are anticipated
