Unit

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• ABOUT THE UNIT
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•                     CANVIJ NEONATAL SERVICES is a tertiary level perinatal centre providing comprehensive care for high and low risk neonates. It comprises of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Perinatal Ward and Neonatal Outpatient Services. All of these departments are interlinked and work together to provide the best possible care. As the unit is adjacent to dedicated, modern obstetric facility, there is joint perinatal working with obstetricians. Every year increasing number of babies of high risk mothers are being born in our hospital.
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•                     Our NICU is a state of art 12 bed unit that has been established at the II floor of the A.G.P Hospital. This purpose built LEVEL III unit provides individualized, compassionate healing environment for inborn babies and ex-utero transfers. It has been designed similar to NICUs in developed countries and has 4 intensive care cots, 5 high dependency cots for inborn newborns and 3 isolation cots in a separate area for outborn babies. Transitional care is provided in the perinatal ward for babies who need some medical treatment but who do not need to be separated from their mother. Neonatal Outpatient services incorporate antenatal counselling, follow up, and neonatal new patient referrals.
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•                     Only babies ≤ 30 days of age and preterm babies ≤ 40 weeks of corrected gestational age are admitted in our unit. Every year about 200 babies from pondicherry and various districts from Tamil Nadu including Chennai, Villupuram, Cuddalore, Thiruvannamalai, Thiruvarur and Vellore are being managed in our unit. So for, more than 50 hospitals including various medical colleges have referred their babies to us.