Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Apollo Cradle is a specialist intensive care unit which provides world renowned high quality care for newborn babies from across the region.

We provide the following services

• Specialise in caring for babies who are born at 24 weeks or later as well as newborn with a variety of complex surgical and cardiac problems.
• Conventional and high frequency ventilation as well as Nitric oxide.
• Total body cooling with Tecothem (Therapeutic Hypothermic) for babies born with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephelopathy.
• Follow up care and Neurodevelopmental assessment in outpatients to monitor the progress of infants treated in our NICU .
• All babies go through OAE screening or hearing before discharge.
• Retinopathy of prematurity screening programme is done by our dedicated team of Ophthalmologists.

Neonatal Unit has well trained nurses, physiotherapists, speech therapists, pharmacists and dieticians.