The highly trained team provides comprehensive neonatal and infant care, including:

  • Vital signs checking.
  • Performing physical examination of babies.
  • Request for laboratory investigation.
  • Request for radiology investigation.
  • Referral of babies to specific specialties for management and treatment.
  • Providing discharge instructions to baby’s mother and family.
  • Management of Hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice)
  • Management of infants of diabetic mothers
  • Prematurity
  • Respiratory problem
  • Metabolic disorders
  • Following up on results of babies’ investigations.
  • Referral of babies with abnormal results to Pediatric Emergency
  • Receive daily booking list from in-patient units for metabolic screening and schedule the babies for the metabolic screening who discharged < 36 hours from hospital.
  • Calling mothers to remind them about metabolic screening appointments and reschedule did not attend babies.
  • Coordinate with metabolic screening unit.
  • Monitor DNA report of metabolic screening appointments.
  • Providing counseling for families who refused the metabolic screening test.
  • Providing discharge instructions to baby’s mother and family about next follow up visit
  • The team performs the following procedures:
  1. Immunizations/RSV
  2. Metabolic screening
  3. Bilirubin checking
  4. Phlebotomy
  5. Umbilical cord care
  6. Circumcision care