700-grams premature baby born at 25 weeks (6month) got a new life at AMRI Hospitals Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar: AMRI Hospitals Bhubaneswar’s NICU team saved an 700-gram premature baby with multiple problems and issues. Here’s how the medical staff at AMRI Hospitals Bhubaneswar saved the newborn baby’s life.

A woman from Puri, Odisha delivered girl child at just 25 weeks of her pregnancy in the month of June. After the conceiving baby, the Parents were doing their regular checkups with Dr Monica Gupta, Gynecolgy, AMRI Hospitals. When the premature delivery happened, the desperate parents, with an aim of saving the surviving neonate, approached the department of Paediatric & Neonatology, AMRI Hopspitals.

The baby received a thorough treatment and care under the care of Dr. Janaki Ballav Pradhan, Dr. Monica Gupta and the NICU Team of AMRI Hospitals Bhubaneswar. “The baby was extremely small and she had all the complications of prematurity. There were many continuous challenges during the treatment. The baby received 3 doses of surfactant, on ventilator support for 1 month and treatment for closure of patent ductus arteriosus. After that when she developed pneumonia and sepsis, we almost lost hope, but the baby was a fighter. With the efforts of all our nurses and doctors, we were able to overcome those issues. She is now healthy and neurologically normal. We are incredibly happy that we were able to save her life and send her home happily with her parents,” said Dr Janaki Ballav Pradhan & Dr Monica Gupta who were the treating Doctors of the baby.

“AMRI Hospitals Bhubaneswar is the most advanced hospital in Eastern India to have the state-of-the-art NICU & PICU facilities as well as mother and child care unit which is dealing with critically ill premature babies,” said Ms Nilanjana Mukherjee, Vice President & Unit Head , AMRI Hospitals Bhubaneswar.

“Extreme prematurity with less than 26 weeks especially with birth weight of 700-grams or less rarely survive without any neurological sequalae. Only a few case reports of this kind are found internationally. After a long wait and a lot of complications ventilator dependency, many blood transfusions baby’s general condition improved. After 102 days, the mother is feeding the baby directly and the baby discharged from the hospital with  weight of 2kg with normal neurological activities with normal hearing and eye condition” Said, Dr Janaki Ballav Pradhan.