Jan 09, 2018 04:47 PM
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Sooriya Hospital may be average or poorly rated, but their neonatal intensive care unit is amongst the best I can say based on my experience. My child was in a children's hospital in Nungambakkam, and got bleeding in brain following infection. Then we shifted the baby to Sooriya NICU.
Treatment is very westernized. Nurses document all information including blood test reports, clinical signs hourly - displayed on bedside. The whole unit is monitored by camera by the chief 24 X 7, which I was told prevents infection and sudden complications that happen in other NICUs. I found the type of ventilator machines for breathing support and oxygen device to be very sophisticated compared to what I had seen before( I am a pharma person myself). Also, the diagnostic skills of the chief Dr Deepa Hariharan seemed to be extra-ordinary, I heard she topped in all medical exams she took. The unit was run very professionally: all tests explained, all medicines notified, diagnosis explained with internet or textbook evidence; so I felt the system was transparent and highly effective. Nurses were very skilled in IV.
But cleanliness outside the NICU needs to be improved; I will not eat in that canteen as I saw insects; billing is not honest for insurance.
But to save the sickest baby, a doctor like Dr Deepa and her ability to run a high-tech effective NICU matter a lot. This may not be available in some corporates nowadays, .
