Kanchi Kamakoti Child Trust Hospital Neonatal Ward for Newborns (NICU) : Many leading doctors have left the department over a span of 4-5 years, at least 8 senior doctors / HODs left. So, now diagnosis, patient care, nature of treatment all are affected. My niece was there for 25 days in NICU and was misdiagnosed to have brainfever and urinary infection, and many strong antibiotics were given. Later we found it be dehydration fever. We also observed that many patients stayed for long in the NICU, but later got opinions from other hospitals like Soorya, Mehta, Ramachandra etc where diagnosis or treatment changed and babies got better. It is said that frequent change of senior doctors in NICU has affected care there. I was reminded of this when I read about how reputation of AIIMS has been affected by attrition there. It is sad that Child Trust neonatal ward, formerly a place of excellence is affected thus.
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