ANTS supports babies like Skyla
December 2009
ACT is raising money towards a new neonatal mobile incubator worth £39,980 to be used by the region's Acute Neonatal Transfer Service (ANTS) based at Addenbrooke's and the Rosie Hospitals.
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ANTS transfers very sick or premature newborn babies from across the Eastern region for specialist intensive care. Last year the team carried out 760 transfers of very sick or premature newborn babies, making ANTS one of the busiest acute neonatal transfer services in the country. |
Many of the babies ANTS transfers are born prematurely, like Skyla, pictured top right with her parents. The more premature the baby, the less prepared it is for life in the outside world, and the more support it will need. Moving a baby in this precarious situation is something the expert ANTS team undertakes with the utmost caution and care. Mobile incubator units are absolutely essential.
Each baby is transferred inside one of these incubator units by ambulance. Each unit includes the incubator itself, heating, oxygen pumps, monitors, and the drugs and fluids the baby needs to stay alive. But ANTS only has three units right now. Three units, to cover the entire East of England.
"Your donation could make an enormous difference this festive season, and for years to come. With a fourth incubator unit, we’ll be able to move more sick newborns, more quickly, in emergencies. But it would also help us get recovering babies back home to their local hospitals sooner." Kate Farrer, Lead Consultant, ANTS
To make a donation online just click on the link below right.
Baby Skyla Creamer, right, was transferred from Ipswich Hospital to Addenbrooke's and the Rosie for intensive care.
Her dad, David, said: "I don’t like to think about what might have happened if ANTS had not been around to move Skyla safely to Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie. It’s an amazing service, so when I heard they needed to raise £39,980 for a new incubator unit I jumped at the chance to help. An extra unit will help ANTS get more babies like Skyla safely to the right hospital. I know only too well how important that is."
