Gauteng public hospitals are experiencing a shortage of almost 100 neonatal intensive care units that could save the lives of premature and sickly babies that are born reliant on incubators. Share your personal experience with public hospitals.
. Tambo Memorial Hospital is short of eight NICU beds; . Tembisa and Far East Rand should each have an additional four NICUs; andAccording to the management at the Steve Biko and Thelle Mogoerane hospitals, they have adequate neonatal ICUs for the patients they serve. According to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, transporting sick babies is risky, so survival can be affected negatively.
He mentioned that Edenvale admitted that babies died while waiting to be transferred to other hospitals because the facility has no single NICU bed. Edenvale Hospital has no neonatal ICUs, and they say, Babies mostly die awaiting tertiary care'. Despite claiming they have adequate ICU beds, Thelle Mogoerane Hospital also says babies die waiting for tertiary care.Charlotte Maxeke Hospital is looking to employ more multidisciplinary staff to care for babies, while George Mukhari Hospital has no plan to increase beds except to get a new hospital.
Tembisa Hospital is asking to build a mother-and-child unit with 10 ICU beds and has also asked for another nearby hospital to be built to serve the local population.Bloom added that another constraint was the shortage of NICU nurses, with much blame placed on the delay in accrediting nursing training courses.
“It is appalling that babies die because ICU beds are not available. Rectifying the shortage of neonatal ICUs should be a top priority to save the lives of sick babies.”In times of uncertainty you need journalism you can trust. For 14 free days, you can have access to a world of in-depth analyses, investigative journalism, top opinions and a range of features. Journalism strengthens democracy. Invest in the future today. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
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