Chennai Corporation to set up 16 newborn units
Posted on: 23/Oct/2013 12:19:48 PM
The Chennai Corporation will be setting up 16 newborn stabilization units at its hospitals across the city to provide state-of-the-art care to ailing newborns.Chennai Corporation Mayor Saidai Duraisamy on Tuesday inaugurated the first unit at the 24-hour emergency obstetric care centre in Vadapalani. The 16 facilities are being commissioned at a cost of Rs.2.4 crore.
Every year, some of the infants among the 18,000 born in Chennai Corporation hospitals, die because of breathing problems, because they are underweight or due to congenital abnormalities. The newborn stabilization units, with facilities including a pulse oximeter, warmer and phototherapy are expected to reduce infant mortality in many impoverished neighborhoods.
