Nigerian hospital celebrates survival of its smallest preterm baby
A preterm baby girl delivered at just 25 weeks of pregnancy and weighing 750g at birth has been discharged from Ibom Multi-Specialty Hospital after spending six months in the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), a feat the hospital describes as the smallest baby it has successfully managed to discharge.
In October 2019, Lagos-based Reddington Hospital announced the discharge of a baby girl delivered at 25 weeks and weighing about 800g after more than two months in intensive neonatal care.” READ ALSO; Police officer praises Akwa Ibom ambulance service for rescuing convulsing man Rare, but not unprecedented Although Ibom Multi-Specialty Hospital says the infant is the smallest baby it has discharged, it is not the first documented case of a Nigerian hospital successfully managing a baby born at 25 weeks.
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