Shrimad Rajchandra Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is the first of its kind in Valsad district. Here, prematurely born infants along with newborns with birth complications receive highly advanced 24×7 care from neonatologists and their specially trained staff.
The state-of-the-art NICU at the Hospital enjoys excellent morbidity and mortality outcomes, even though ~40% of the total admissions are critically-ill babies referred by other hospitals.
Many of the women coming to Shrimad Rajchandra Hospital and Research Centre for deliveries are young (18-20 years), severely anaemic and weigh only 35-40 kgs. As a result, the delivered babies are premature, under-weight and need highly specialised medical attention in order to survive. To provide tertiary care to protect these precious new lives, we set up a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Now, the NICU is a key department at the hospital and one of the most advanced in the entire Valsad District.
The NICU plays a major role in saving the lives of prematurely born infants and those with birth complications and nursing them back to good health. Many infants remain under this highly specialised care for a month or longer. Every year, over 800 critically-ill, premature and low birth weight newborns are successfully treated here.
The NICU is well-equipped with the following:
Shrimad Rajchandra Hospital and Research Centre has developed a Neonatal Transport Service in cooperation with faculty and staff from Stanford University School of Medicine, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and GVK EMRI who run the 108 Ambulance Service. The ambulance has been designed to safely transport newborn babies to Shrimad Rajchandra Hospital and Research Centre. It is equipped with a mobile ventilator, multi-parameter, syringe pump, embrace warmer, and lifesaving medication. Additionally, the ambulance will have on-board a team of highly trained doctors and nurses to provide care to neonates during transfers. Presently, no other such service exists in the entire Valsad and Dang district.
Most of the infants treated here would not have survived if this level of highly-specialised care were not available in such a location.
