The telangana government has connected all 42 Special Newborn Care Units (SNCUs) in the districts to a single facility at Niloufer Hospital in order to maintain and further improve the achievements made by lowering newborn and mother mortality rates. Through the hub-and-spoke concept, the super-specialty specialists at Niloufer Hospital will be able to monitor the developmental healthcare indicators of critically preterm newborns admitted to the government-run SNCUs in the city as well as in the districts.

The number of SNCUs has increased from 19 in 2014 to 42 in 2023, and they are now able to treat newborns who are ill in various ways. In district hospitals, these facilities are situated close to the labor wards as independent sections. At SNCU, ill neonates get critical care and round-the-clock observation. The central location at Niloufer Hospital, known as a Centre of Excellence, will give the SNCUs additional assistance by connecting them with senior multispecialty specialists who will monitor child growth in real-time.

"We will use video conferencing to provide local doctors in districts who are in charge of SNCUs specialized help. According to Dr. T usha Rani, Superintendent of Niloufer Hospital, "Such a coordinated effort would undoubtedly go a long way in further decreasing newborn and maternal mortality rates.

Due to their extremely low birth weights, preterm infants in SNCUs do experience many health issues, she claimed. Due to various illnesses such asphyxia, sepsis, respiratory distress syndrome, hypothermia, hypoglycemia, congenital abnormalities, and preterm, morbidity among these newborns in SNCUs is particularly high.

The Superintendent stated that "such infants need specialty care and without a doubt the new facility at Niloufer Hospital will be able to play its role saving the precious lives." At Niloufer Hospital, efforts are being made to perform difficult cardiac procedures on newborns who were born with congenital heart conditions. Senior physicians from the hospital will soon begin performing these operations, according to T Harish Rao, the health minister, who on saturday officially opened a Centre of Excellence at Niloufer Hospital to help 42 SNCUs.

Along with cardiac operations, we are introducing 33 unique neo-natal ambulances to ensure that newborns receive speciality treatment as soon as possible. The top medical staff at Niloufer Hospital will advise the staff at SNCUs on how to save the lives of newborns who are very ill there, the minister stated. The Rs 2 crore facility at Niloufer Hospital would help telangana further lower IMR and MMR. According to him, the telangana government has spent close to Rs 500 crore so far on only creating specialised infrastructure for MCH.
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26/06/2023 07:23 AM