The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Apollo Adlux Hospital, Kochi provides specialised care for premature, low-birth-weight, high-risk and critically ill newborns. The NICU is supported by neonatologists, paediatric specialists and trained neonatal nursing professionals who provide continuous observation and individualised care for newborns requiring advanced medical support.

Babies with breathing difficulties, premature birth complications, infections, jaundice, feeding difficulties, congenital conditions and other neonatal illnesses may require NICU monitoring and treatment. The neonatal team works closely with obstetricians, fetal medicine specialists, paediatric surgeons and other specialists when multidisciplinary care is required.

NICU services include:

• Care of premature babies
• Low-birth-weight and very-low-birth-weight newborn care
• Respiratory support for newborns
• Neonatal infection management
• Management of neonatal jaundice
• Feeding and nutritional support
• Temperature and metabolic monitoring
• Management of neonatal respiratory distress
• Care for high-risk newborns
• Post-operative neonatal monitoring
• Developmental and neurological monitoring
• Parent counselling and breastfeeding support