Abu Dhabi: Newborn babies born with heart abnormalities in Abu Dhabi Emirate can now be safely monitored at home while they await corrective procedures.
The Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha), the emirate’s public health provider, launched its Interstage Monitoring Programme, to monitor babies born with severe abnormalities, including hypoplastic left heart syndrome as well as other conditions in which only one side of the heart is functioning.
Multiple surgeries
Babies with these conditions normally have to undergo an initial open-heart surgery in their first few days of life, followed by a second surgery six months later. In between the two procedures the interstage period patients are discharged, and the new monitoring programme will make this fraught period safer.
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