What you need to know about our NICU:
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: This is designed to provide the highest level of care available in Qatar. We can handle the most complex and serious neonatal emergencies, and we are equipped to respond quickly to any unforeseen circumstances and provide the highest level of care.
- Special Care Baby Unit: We are in the process of setting up a Special Care Baby Unit. This will be for babies who need a short stay for less complex neonatal care. Located next to the maternity ward, it will provide comprehensive and safe care for all newborns.
Our goal is to provide the best medical care for you and your baby, tailored to your medical needs.
Department highlights
- We can care for babies born at all gestational ages and with any medical or surgical disease. Experienced neonatologists with strong training and background are leading the care along with a multidisciplinary team of nurses, respiratory therapists and allied health.
- Neonatologists with hemodynamic expertise which supports critical care with regular echocardiographic assessments of the patients
- Offer the full range of pediatric medical and surgical sub-specialist services and pediatric anesthesiologists on site
- Perform complex surgical procedures to repair complex congenital or acquired conditions
- Offer a family-centered developmental approach for the babies and the families with single family rooms only on NICU.
- Trained staff in Family and Infant Neurodevelopmental Education Program (FINE) which enables supportive developmental care for all the babies and their families
- NICU is equipped with state-of-the-art devices such as electric velocimetry, near infrared spectroscopy, bedside echocardiography machines, amplitude-integrated electroencephalography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ventilators.
- For discharged patients, we have specialized follow-up clinics. These are:
- High-risk infant follow-up clinic where we assess the neurodevelopment of vulnerable neonates with a multidisciplinary team including neonatologists, nurses, physiotherapists, speech language therapists, occupational health therapists, and dieticians. Several screening tools are used along with an innovative screening tool for early intervention to assess spontaneous movements (GMA) supporting brain development.
- NICU post-discharge clinic to make sure that any baby discharged from NICU is assessed by the NICU team a couple of days later. This is reassuring for the parents and improves a safe discharge process.
