Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital offers top class neonatal services

Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital (PCH), located in the eastern part of NCR at Delhi-Ghaziabad border is a 350+ bedded super speciality hospital. It aims to provide the highest quality of healthcare to a broad mix of local and international patients, and is amongst the few hospitals in the region to have National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) accreditation. PCH has several highly specialised Centers of Excellence that comprise multispeciality treatment facilities including Centre for Comprehensive Child Health which looks after all the problems of children, from birth to 16 years of age.

Centre for Comprehensive Child Health is headed by Dr SK Mittal, former Director, Prof and Head, Department of Paediatrics, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi along with a team of full time neonatologists, paediatricians and paediatric surgeon.

As a part of the Neonatology and Paediatrics Department, a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) was established in 2009 with four beds, which today has increased to 24 beds. The department is fully equipped with level-3 NICU facilities for neonatal, medical and surgical needs.

All 24 beds in NICU, are equipped with ultra- modern, state-of-the-art facilities including the bedside monitor and eight-bedded central monitoring unit, five ventilators-including two high frequency ventilators and 18 phototherapy units including two double surface phototherapy units.

The department is self-sufficient in management of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS, HMD); meconium aspiration syndromes, persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN), septic shock; and various neonatal surgical problems such as tracheo- esophageal fistulas and congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Apart from this, it also offers round-the-clock investigation facilities like ABG etc.

The Neonatal Unit has been providing care to increasing number of babies over the years with excellent outcomes, even among the most vulnerable of them i.e. those with low birth weight (<1500 gm.)

The Neonatal Unit also offers facilities for transportation of sick new born with a trained transport team, incubators, ventilators and specially equipped ambulance. Over the last three years, the unit has transported 212 neonates with excellent results.

The unit has dedicated full time neonatologist and full time paediatricians available round the clock.

The unit is the first, in the whole of Western UP, to receive accreditation from National Neonatology Forum. It has also started Fellowship training courses in neonatology, in affiliation with NNF.