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Medical Team

Sl. No. Name Qualification Designation Experience
1 Dr. G. Selvam MBBS CMO 16 years
2 Dr. M. Subramanian MBBS, DNB (Family Medicine) CMO (NFSG) 22 years
3 Dr. R. Rajam MBBS, DCH SMO 11 years
4 Dr. Vanitha MBBS, DCH SMO 11 years
5 Dr. Preethi Murugaiyan MBBS, MD (Microbiology) SMO 11 years
6 Dr. Sasirekha MD (Ped) GDMO 11 years
7 Dr. Shalini MBBS GDMO (contract) 10 years

Supporting Staff

  • Senior Nursing Officer
  • Nursing Officers
  • Nursing Orderly
  • Ward Attendant

Services Offered :

  • Care of Newborns born at RGGW&CH at Birth
    1. Basic Neonatal Care
    2. Advanced Neonatal Resuscitation
  • Management of Special & Sick Newborns in SNCU
    1. Assisted Ventilation
    2. Preterm care including surfactant administration
    3. Babies with feeding difficulty & poor weight gain
    4. Counselling of mothers appropriately focusing on their problems.
    5. Management of other complications
  • Follow-up clinics for the inborn Neonates
  • Retinopathy of Prematurity Screening
  • Auditory Screening
  • Physiotherapy for the needy
  • Management in 'District Early Intervention Centre' appropriately
  • Timely and safe referral
  • List of High risk babies sent to DD(FW) for community follow-up

In-patients wards (Care of Newborns)

  • Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU - Inborn)
  • Post Natal Wards
  • Post Operative Wards (Immediate & Annex)
  • Special Wards
  • Isolation Wards
  • Post Partum Wards

Bed strength - 15 beds (in SNCU)

Equipments Details

Sl. No. Name of the Equipment Stock Working Status
1 Radiant Warmer 21 Working
2 Mechanical Ventilator 4 Working
3 CPAP Machines 3 Working
4 Incubator 12 Working
5 Syringe Infusion Pumps 15 Working
6 Pulse Oximeter 7 Working
7 Whole Body cooling Device 1 Working
8 Cardiac Defibrillator 2 Working
9 Double Surface Phototherapy 2 Working
10 Single Surface Phototherapy 5 Working
11 NIBP Monitor 7 Working
12 Arterial Blood Gas Analyser 1 Working

Statistics

Sr. No. Statistics Year
2018 2019 2020 2021
1 Live Births 9996 11156 9144 9318
2 SNCU Admissions 1627 1038 588 725
3 Prematurity/deaths 471 / 22 488 / 14 432 / 20 560 / 24
4 Birth Asphyxia / Deaths 143 / 11 180 / 13 152 / 12 147 / 5
5 Sepsis / Deaths 7 / 0 12 / 5 8 / 3 7 / 1
6 Referral 34 19 11 21
7 Deaths 37 37 34 38
8 Neonatal Mortality Rate 3.9 3.6 3.9 4.1
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