Children and infants

Pediatrics and Neonatal unit at Ghaem International Hospital is located on the 2nd floor. It has 8 beds for children and 14 baby cots. The unit has been designed in a way that kids would be happy and active in it and wouldn’t be sad, afraid or worried. Walls and the corridor here have been painted in light colors and lightings are such that children get excited. Also, a playroom has been dedicated to children, which has all the toys and things they might need to have some fun.

This unit is right next to the NICU and in cases when a newborn baby might have any complications, it would be transferred to the NICU immediately in just a few seconds. The said unit has nurses, who are quite experienced in working in this field. All the children who go through any surgery are admitted here. The unit’s activities can be divided into three groups:

• Hygienic
• Therapeutic
• Educational

Hygienic Activities

• Administering vaccinations at birth to all newborn babies In exceptional cases, periodic immunization for patients
• from other units and sections (Tetanus and Hepatitis vaccines)
• Performing screening test at the national level for 3-5 days-old infants hospitalized at the Neonatal unit

Therapeutics Activities

• Admitting child and adolescent patients with internal and surgical complications from the reception unit, polyclinics and doctors’ offices
• Internal Complications: Fever and convulsion, pneumonia, asthma, bronchitis, urinary tract infection, gastroenteritis, pansinusitis, infectious diseases, diabetes, favism, transfusion of blood products, etc.
• Surgical Complications: Tonsillectomy, hemorrhoids, hernia, trauma, various fractures, congenital disorders in organs, hypospadias, circumcision, etc.
• Therapeutic measures of the neonatal unit (infants less one-month old) are: providing diagnostic-therapeutic services using incubators and phototherapy in cases of icter.

Educational Activities

• Education at the time of hospitalization: Introducing the unit to the patient and her or his companions, observing hygiene and immunity, helping child patient’s companion to become familiar with the disease, its conditions and complications, providing educational booklets and face-to-face instruction to breast feeding mothers about childhood illnesses, hand sanitation and isolation.
• Education at the time of discharge: Giving doctor’s business card, instructions about the amount and side effects of oral and non-oral medications, instructions about the measures that should be taken in cases when complications occur, how to get an appointment for the next visit and when, providing educational print-outs, brochures and doing hearing screening tests.