Women’s Commission donation helps premies

The neonatal unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital this afternoon officially received a new radiant warmer used especially for premature babies. The donation from the Women’s Commission is timely since it came just when the unit is expanding. The hospital’s Director of Medical Services, Dr. Khalid Ghazy, says the new addition will be a big help.

Dr. Khalid Ghazy, Director, Medical Services, K.H.M.H.
“The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital just acquired about six about seven months ago and we definitely, we encourage the good donation from the Women’s Department today. Actually we have now six in the unit, four was from the—four we purchased and two were placed in the Operating Theatre and one in the Labour and Delivery. The added one to the machines that we have here definitely an added value for the special care baby unit right now. We are in a process of expanding the unit so the actual capacity of the unit right now is eight neonates. In the near future it should be up to twenty neonates. Most of them are premature so the survival rate with the better equipment definitely will be much more better.”

Ambassador Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Member, Women’s Commission
“ And we’re happy because when you have premature babies and you know you’re giving them a possibility of living and surviving so that they can really have that gift of life as we could call it, we’re pleased to do so.”

The radiant warmer is valued at nine thousand five hundred dollars. Today the Women’s Commission also officially handed over a fully tiled floor for the Women’s section at the Hattieville Correctional Facility.