Neonatal ICU for Nawaloka new hospital complex

Nawaloka Hospital PLC the pioneer among private sector health care providers, opened their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in their new state-of-the-art hospital complex on the first floor recently. It was opened by the Chairman Nawaloka Hospital PLC, Deshamanya H.K. Dharmadasa in the presence of eminent consultant pediatricians, obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Nawaloka Hospital's Neonatal ICU was built and is fully equipped with all modern facilities for the emergency care of premature and term babies, while highly qualified, trained and experienced medical officers and nursing staff are on hand to manage any post surgical neonatal babies. "Nawaloka Hospital is now in a unique position to provide care for such babies. At NICU we have 12 equipped beds with ventilator facilities and a one to one nurse to bed ratio" said Director / General Manager Nawaloka Hospitals, Professor Lal Chandrasena.

Also housed on this same floor is the Obstetric and Gynaecology ward with two separate operating theatres, solely dedicated for the services of maternity patients, so that attention and care would be even more prompt and easy. In keep with modern trends, a private delivery room facility is available in order that husbands could be with their wives and witness the delivery procedure.

"Our fully equipped fertility centre which is relocated on the fourth floor of the new Nawaloka hospital complex is designed to give privacy to our patients. It has a donor bank and we have introduced vitrification, a new technique for freezing oocyte (female eggs/ovums). Science has allowed us to freeze sperm and for years we have been able to freeze embryos but it is only just recently that we have been able to freeze eggs/ovums" said Professor Chandrasena. He went on to say that deliveries of all premature triplets and twins too would be cared for at the Neonatal ICU.