Ten premature babies died — three to four of them charred — after a fire broke out in the Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) of the District General Hospital here, about 60km from Nagpur, between 1.30am and 2am on Saturday. The victims included eight girls and two boys.
Doctors said retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is an eye disease which develops in premature infants born before 28 weeks of gestation period, which is above 37 weeks.
The system is about to be tested on premature babies at University Hospital Zurich (USZ).
iNICU, short for Integrated Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, was founded in June 2016 by Singh and pediatrician Gautam Yadav after Singh lost one of his premature twins.
The tiniest premature babies – weighing less than 1 kg at birth – often fail to gain very much weight during their long stay in hospital and this impacts upon their subsequent growth.
A premature baby in China, who was born smaller than a diaper, has survived and was discharged from a hospital today after nearly three months of treatment.
The facility to identify retinopathy of prematurity (RoP) was inaugurated at the Namakkal District Headquarters Hospital on Friday.
Eye doctors in Pune have succeeded in restoring vision in infants suffering from an end stage eye disorder that can cause blindness and which primarily affects both the eyes in premature babies.
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