We were two weeks in neonatal intesive care unit (NICU). There was much very small premature babies, smallest ones weihgted only a half kilo. This was the first ward where they use a alcohol rub a lot. They had lot of hospital equipments like incubators, infusion pump and rescution tables but some of thems were broken and they didn`t have spare parts to fix them. They couldn`t also use infusion pumps at all because they didn`t have proper giving sets.

The first morning wasn`t very nice, because one baby stop breathing and nurses tried to save him but he didn`t survive. It was very hard to see a little baby dying and we almost cryed. Overall it was very nice to work with tiny little babies, they were so cute. We would have wanted to take one pocket size baby with us to Finland. :) There were babies whose mother were died and one baby who was dumped and we were like the foster moms to them for two weeks.

The hospital didn`t provide nappies or clothes for the babies. If parents didn`t have money to buy them or the mom wasn`t there to taking care of the baby, babies were just wrabbed in the blanked without clothes and a nappy. Mothers came to the ward every two or three hours to feed and take care of the babies and we took care of the babies whose mothers were sick or died. Fathers weren't allowed to come to the ward. We learnt to cupfeed babies because they don't recommend to use feeding bottles because of the hygienic reasons.

There were lot of hiv-positive babies because hiv-mothers have much bigger change to have prematured babies. Everyday at least one baby died. Most of the babies didn't have good change to survive.

Next we are going to labour ward. We have only two weeks left of our practical placement here and soon we will be coming back home.:)