Vulnerable babies to benefit

Dunedin Hospital neonatal intensive care equipment nurse 
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Dunedin Hospital neonatal intensive care equipment nurse Annie Marshall discusses the hospital's new transport incubator yesterday. Photo by Craig Baxter.
A fundraising initiative will help ensure some of our smallest and most vulnerable babies have a future.

The national fundraising campaign by Progressive Enterprises, which ran through August and October this year, raised $760,000, $80,000 of which was given to Dunedin Hospital's Children's Services yesterday.

Southern District Health Board children's health services manager Linda Moir said money raised in previous campaigns helped buy a new transport incubator, worth $75,000, for premature babies.

"Any change to a fragile premature babies' environment can disturb them so incubators provide them with intensive care conditions while they are being transported in planes, helicopters and between areas of hospitals," she said.

This year, Children's Services also hoped to buy a cardio respiratory monitor, breast-feeding armchairs and a retinal camera, which would take pictures of a newborn's retina, reducing the need for Southern babies to be transferred to Canterbury.

Southland Hospital also received $80,000 from the campaign.

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