Hyderabad: To ensure the timely availability of emergency healthcare facilities to preterm babies in government hospitals, the Telangana government on Sunday launched 33 fully-equipped neonatal ambulances that will be available in all the districts.
This is for the first time in the country that such a facility to transport preterm babies needing emergency health care has been launched in all the districts of the State.
The neonatal ambulances, which will be operated and maintained by the Telangana government with an annual expenditure of Rs 8.07 crore, will go a long way in ensuring emergency high-end healthcare facilities including life-saving ventilators and super specialty services, are accessible to preterm babies from remote locations.
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The neonatal ambulances are equipped with modern medical infrastructure including transport incubators, neonatal transport ventilators, emergency medical oxygen supply facilities, humidification systems, pulse oximeters, syringe pumps with long-lasting battery backup, suction operators, etc, which will be operated by trained pediatric emergency caregivers.
“Neonatal ambulances will plug the gaps in extending high-end intensive emergency medical care to infants. The ambulances will provide intensive life-saving facilities to preterm babies even before they reach a specialty government hospital, which will go a long way in saving precious lives,” Health Minister, T Harish Rao, who inaugurated the neonatal ambulances on Sunday, said.
The Health Minister said the State government is pulling out all stops to ensure high-end medical facilities are available for the poor in Telangana.
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“We are establishing infertility centers at Petlaburj Maternity Hospital and Gandhi Hospital. A state-of-the-art organ transplant center is also being established at Gandhi Hospital. For the first time, we retrieved a donor’s liver and transported it to OGH for transplantation. Recently, Gandhi Hospital received ISO certification for Quality Management, Health, and Safety Management,” Harish Rao added.
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