Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), a level-three unit, located in C3 ward at AIIMS caters to the needs of 2200 high-risk mothers who deliver per year.. Equipped with modern state-of-art equipment, our NICU is managed by team of highly skilled nurses, neonatologists, fellows, MD residents and other support staff. Our motto is to provide humanized, compassionate care with optimum use of technology to manage sickest and tiniest of neonate. The parents form an integral part of the team providing care to their infant.

The unit has facilities of conventional and high frequency ventilation, total parenteral nutrition, invasive and noninvasive monitoring, intensive phototherapy. The back up services of pediatric surgery, pediatric cardiology, nephrology, lab medicine, hematology, blood bank, pathology, genetics and microbiology are available round the clock. We have a long experience of performing neonatal autopsy ( Click here for more). We have multidisciplinary follow-up services for high-risk babies being discharged from our unit.

Established way back in 1962, neonatal care has moved in leaps and bounds at AIIMS. A simple set of interventions in form of abandoning stock solution, using IV canula in place of scalp vein set and use of plenty of disposables led to drastic reduction in neonatal mortality rate (NMR) (36.6 in 1985 to 23.9 in 1986) ( Click here for details). Later with institution of neonatal ventilation services, NMR further fell down to…per thousand livebirths. Our current NMR is 18 per thousand live births ( Click here for details

Our unit has been accredited as WHO Collaborating centre in 1997. We provide training to in-service doctors from India as well as from other countries. Presently a number of clinical research studies are in progress ( Click here for details).