First of its kind mother & child unit starts at Paras Hospital
Srinagar, Jun 21: According utmost important to facilitating “normal deliveries”, a team of paediatricians and obstetrician said expecting mothers could be trained and taken to birth naturally at Paras Hospital Srinagar's newly established Mother and Child Care Center. The Center also offers advanced Neonatal ICU for critical, preterm and low-birth weight newborns.
The Centre offers round the clock emergency for maternity care and newborns. On the occasion of inaugurating the facility, that has been functional for over a month, the Hospital Medical Director Dr Murtaza Habib said Paras was committed to making state-of-art healthcare available to people of Kashmir at competitive prices in private healthcare industry. He said the hospital believed in inclusion and offered many services under AB PM-JAY scheme. “We even do dialysis under Golden Card here,” he said.
The team of Maternity and New-born Centre said it was for the first that Continuous Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) was available in a newborn center here. Dr Sajjad Ahmed Bhat, Consultant Pediatrics and Neonatology said many succeess stories had already been written by the team at the Center. “We will give every newborn the best possible start, right here, and up their chances of a healthy long life,” he said. Dr Waseem Yousuf, Pediatric Consultant Paras Hospital said the hospital would cater to all complications in newborns. The unit has high-frequency ventilators, transport incubators, and portable CPAP devices.
He said the NICU was unique as it has the combination of cutting-edge equipment and a deeply committed team. “We follow evidence-based protocols tailored to each newborn’s needs, be it respiratory distress, infections like sepsis, or prematurity. Every child is different, and so is the approach to their care,” he said .
Speaking about the approach to maternity at the newly established unit, Dr Nazeefa, Consultant Gyneacology and Obstetrics said natural births would be encouraged wherever feasible. “We will train women throughout their pregnancy to birth naturally with their consent,” she said adding that the hospital was all set to handle any complications if they arise. “We understand that a number of pregnancies are high risk and we have all facilities to cater to those,” she further told the gathering of media that was present at the inauguration ceremony. While replying to a media query about the case of alleged negligence at the hospital and subsequent inquiry, the hospital said the government ordered inquiry was underway and the hospital would not comment on that.
