21/02/2007
Airlift baby in a 'critical condition'
A six-week old baby who was airlifted to a hospital in Liverpool on Friday evening due to a lack of intensive care beds in Northern Ireland, is in a "critical condition" it has today been reported.
Ben Marshall, was moved from the Ulster Hospital in Belfast to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool on Friday evening, where his condition eventually stabilised.
However after spending a few days in the intensive care unit of the hospital, last night the infant's condition deteriorated.
Ben was born nine weeks premature and spent a month in hospital before being allowed home, where he then developed a chest infection.
When his parents took him to hospital, there were no places in the intensive care unit to facilitate him, and after searching for a bed throughout the north and south of Ireland, a place was eventually located for him in Liverpool.
There are currently 104 neo-natal cots in Northern Ireland, with 20 in intensive care wards.
An extra £800,000 has been allocated for neo-natal paediatric intensive care services between 2007 – 2008.
(EF)
Ben Marshall, was moved from the Ulster Hospital in Belfast to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool on Friday evening, where his condition eventually stabilised.
However after spending a few days in the intensive care unit of the hospital, last night the infant's condition deteriorated.
Ben was born nine weeks premature and spent a month in hospital before being allowed home, where he then developed a chest infection.
When his parents took him to hospital, there were no places in the intensive care unit to facilitate him, and after searching for a bed throughout the north and south of Ireland, a place was eventually located for him in Liverpool.
There are currently 104 neo-natal cots in Northern Ireland, with 20 in intensive care wards.
An extra £800,000 has been allocated for neo-natal paediatric intensive care services between 2007 – 2008.
(EF)
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