Children are the ornaments of this worldly life, the hospital administration decided to pay close attention to the department of paediatrics, so that the hospital outsources medical staff of the highest level with the latest medical supplies and appliances, and still continues to develop and modernize. The department provides excellent services for children from birth until the age of 15 years.
The Department of Paediatrics in Dar Al Shifaa Hospital consists of several units, namely:
The new-born unit includes the following services:
* The neonatal care unit for new-borns from the first minute of birth, whether normal or caesarean, until the mother and her new-born discharge from the hospital in safety.
* Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: This unit contains the latest incubators and their accessories including monitors, oxygen, phototherapy devices and artificial respiration. And this unit is also concerned with diagnosing and treating diseases of new-borns such as respiratory diseases, heart diseases, nervous system, blood diseases, and any other diseases affecting new-borns.
* Contains modern extensive phototherapy equipment with its superior and fast efficiency in treating jaundice.
* The unit receives all new-born cases referred from health centres or other hospitals that need care in the NICU.
* Available 24 hours, even holidays, ready to receive all critical and emergency cases of children and deal with them with the latest scientific protocols.
The most important services provided in the Paediatrics Department:
- Treatment of asthma and chest infection.
- Follow-up of premature babies.
- Follow-up of delayed growth.
- Diabetes in children.
- Epilepsy in children.
- Treatment of urinary tract infection & urination incontinence.
- Paediatric kidney disease and nephrotic syndrome
- Hereditary blood diseases problems and anaemia.
