A baby who needs intensive care after delivery needs it immediately, and a transfer across the city is the last thing anyone wants at that moment. The neonatal unit is on the same campus as maternity, so the baby stays where the mother is.
What this department treats
The unit cares for babies who need support in the first days and weeks of life.
- Premature babies
- Low birth weight
- Neonatal jaundice
- Breathing difficulty at birth
- Feeding difficulty
- Neonatal infection
- Babies needing observation after a difficult delivery
- Babies needing phototherapy
Inside the department
Neonatal intensive care
Monitoring and support for newborn babies.
Alongside maternity
On the same campus, so no transfer is needed.
Paediatric ICU
A separate unit for older children.
24-hour lab
Blood work available at any hour.
Getting seen
- Start at the general OPD. Between 9:00 am and 9:00 pm, pay the consultation charge and you will be seen and directed here. That charge includes the medicine prescribed for that day. In an emergency go straight to accident and emergency instead.
- Bring what you have. Photo identification, any scheme or insurance card, and earlier prescriptions, scans or reports.
- Scheme check before admission. Cards are verified before admission rather than at discharge.
- Rates are published. The same rate applies to every patient in a category, with no negotiation at the counter.