Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, which serves to meet the medical care needs of newborn babies, especially sick and premature newborn babies, is a 19-bed, 3rd step, fully equipped unit.
What is Neonatology?
Neonatology is a sub-branch of the Department of Child Health and Diseases that deals with all risky babies such as newborns and premature babies.
What is Neonatology Specialist?
Neonatology specialists are physicians whose field of study is newborn babies. They have gained expertise in issues such as the care of newborn babies and diseases that may occur after birth.
What is Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?
These are the places where the follow-up, treatment and care of babies who have been hospitalised within the first 28 (twenty-eight) days following birth and/or in the neonatal period and whose treatment continues despite the passage of 28 days, and babies with a corrected age of up to 52 (fifty-two) weeks for premature babies.
What is the 3rd Level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?
It is the unit where very small premature babies as well as newborns with very serious diseases or requiring major surgical treatment are treated and where continuous life support and intensive care facilities are provided when necessary. The relevant units of hospitals with the required number of beds, personnel, medical devices and equipment in the standards determined by the Ministry of Health are classified as Third Level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
