The Department of Public Health, MOH, is keen to train Neonatal Nurses at the Regional Referral Hospitals for a period of one month. A letter to this effect has reached our hospital few days back. This came as a big and funny surprise to me because the concerned people have not done any homework as to whether the regional hospitals have the set up and the facilities conducive for an attachment training. For instance, both the hospitals do not yet have a proper neonatal set up. In Mongar, neonates are nursed together in the adult ICU. There are only two formally trained neonatal nurses in the whole hospital( one of which is not currently working in the neonatal ward for health reasons). Most of the nursing is done by nurses trained in adult ICU.
And in this set up, how can we train neonatal nurses which is a highly specialised area? I have expressed my concern to the Program accordingly.
There is a remote possibility that we may be able to start a separate NICU after July -August this year provided that we are given sufficient number of nurses from the fresh pass-outs.
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