The Special Care Newborn Unit (SCNU) is a neonatal unit in the vicinity of the labour room that provides care to all sick newborns (except for those requiring assisted ventilation or major surgery). The SCNU at the hospital provides the following services: 1. Care at birth, including resuscitation of asphyxiated newborns 2. Managing sick newborns (except those requiring mechanical ventilation and major surgical interventions) 3. Post-natal care 4. Follow up of high risk newborns 5. Referral services 6. Immunisation services.
We have 2 (two) functioning SNCUs at DH, Alipurduar and SGH, Birpara and are likely to have one at the SSH, Falakata too.
Apart from the routine SNCU services, screening of pre-term or low birth weight babies for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is done on a monthly basis and laser surgeries arranged.
