Neonatology

The Department of Neonatology of the Women's and Children's Hospital affiliated with Zhejiang University School of Medicine is one of the largest neonatology departments among comparable obstetrics and gynecology hospitals in China. It has 105 approved beds and consists of three major sections: an intensive care unit, a recovery unit for premature infants, and a general neonatal unit; it also has 2 isolation rooms. The department has more than 100 professional medical staff and undertakes monitoring and rescue of all types of high-risk and critically ill newborns, neonatal resuscitation in obstetrics, neonatal outpatient services, medical care and health care for newborns in mother-and-infant rooms, and follow-up of high-risk newborns. It admits more than 6,000 critically ill and high-risk newborns annually, including more than 300 extremely low-birth-weight infants treated each year.