Any baby from 0-1 months of age is a neonate. This period is very important in the future development and growth of the baby. 15-20% of newborn babies requires specialized care that is neonatal care. This is because even now in our country, there is a high incidence of low birth weight babies & high incidence of infection in babies. Among this 5% will need highly specialized intensive neonatal care. Neonatal care also involves the spreading of awareness about care of the mother during pregnancy, need for safe and supervised delivery and the basic care of a newborn. Even now, in India the neonatal mortality rate is as high as 40%. Hence the need of the hour is more widespread and affordable neonatal care.

NICU care is needed for low birth weight babies (Birth weight <2.5kg), Premature babies (babies born before 37 weeks), babies with breathing difficulty, babies who had difficult labour, babies of high risk mothers (i.e mothers with hypertension, diabetes, or other medical diseases) babies with congenital malformation requiring surgical intervention, babies with high level of jaundice, those with infection, those with correctable congenital heart diseases etc. KOSHYS HOSPITAL NICU

We wish to mention here that there is no intensive care facility to babies in this part of Bangalore. Due to high mortality infants or newborn, a level 3 ultra modern Neonatal intensive care and 8 bedded ICU unit with super speciality ventilators are also provided. This neonatal intensive care unit taken care by highly qualified and experienced Neonatologists who have been giving new life to these young babies.NICU care is highly expensive in view of the sophisticated equipments and the need for using disposable consumables every time. Inspite of that we have managed to reduce the cost so that even the poor people can access the wonders of modern medicine. Mentioned below are the few cases where the hospital had to fund for better health of the patients…….