SENGEREMA COUNCIL DESIGNATED HOSPITAL

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SR. GEREVASIO - MATERNITY WARD

Maternity ward takes care of mothers after delivery with or without complications and before delivery if mothers have illnesses or complications of pregnancy.
Those with normal deliveries and healthy babies are nursed in post natal ward. Those with illness or complications e.g Caesarian sections are nursed in maternity wardroom 1- 4 and side rooms.
Each section has its own staff: maternity two registered nurse, one enrolled nurse and 3 attendants.
Postnatal ward, a team who also do the postnatal visit after 1 week has a staff of 4 enrolled nurses.
NICU has 1 registered nurse and 5 enrolled nurses and 1 medical attendant.
Premature unit has two enrolled nurses.
Neonatal care unit: Since October 2015 neonatal care is provided in a 6 bed neonatal intensive care, with 4 incubators and 3 warmers and cecap equipment and an 8 beds observation room for babies who still need observation and their mothers.
Healthy prematures, who can breathe well without oxygen are transferred to premature unit were experienced nurses guide the mothers in kangaroo mother care. Our kangaroo care unit was started already in 1990.