Health
The Canberra Hospital unveils upgrades to its paediatric high care ward to help babies like Leo recover – ABC News
Spending months in hospital at just four months old is not the start in life Leo’s parents wanted for him, but it’s hoped upgrades to his ward at The Canberra Hospital…
Rachael Guymer was 12 weeks pregnant when doctors told her the baby had a condition she had never heard of.
Key points:
- A $50 million upgrade of the Canberra Hospital is underway
- Improvements have been made to the Paediatric High Care Ward, where young patients can be kept safe from infections
- Baby Leo has been receiving treatment in the ward for two months
Leo, now four months old, was diagnosed with gastroschisis, where an opening, or stoma, develops in the abdominal wall.
It causes the bowel to…
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