NSLHD News - April 11

Stuart and Tara, with their daughters Camilla and Eloise, with Hornsby special care nursery staff

Unwell babies receive a helping hand at Hornsby Unwell newborns at Hornsby will receive a helping hand with the donation of new equipment that can help treating teams stabilise critically-ill infants.

to donate one of the ATOM incubators. The other incubator was donated by a generous private Humpty Dumpty Foundation supporter. “When our twins Camilla and Eloise were born at Royal North Shore Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, they each spent six weeks in an Atom incubator,” Stuart and Tara said. “This equipment is expensive and it’s fundamental to ensuring amazing health outcomes for babies that are born early like ours. “We are very proud to have donated this piece to Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital where it is already being used on a daily basis.”

The ATOM incubator is an important piece of equipment that helps doctors and nurses to stabilise unwell newborn babies, maintain their temperature, monitor vital signs and provide oxygen therapy as required. The Humpty Dumpty Foundation made the special donation to Hornsby Ku-ring- gai Hospital’s special care nursery with the donation of two incubators, valued at $35,000 each. Humpty Dumpty Foundation ambassadors Stuart Pollard and Tara Prowse, along with their daughters Camilla and Eloise, fundraised

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