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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Years ago, premature babies calved in the Central Valley were often separated from their mothers and transferred hours distant for specialized care.
Today, that’s nary longer the case, acknowledgment to decades of enactment led by the Rajani family. The recently renamed Rajani Family NICU astatine some Community Regional and Clovis Community reflects a longstanding ngo to support babies and their families adjacent to home.
When Dr. Krishnakumar Rajani archetypal arrived successful Fresno, the infirmary lacked the resources to attraction for the astir susceptible newborns.
“In 2008 and 2009, we delivered astir 9,000 babies Downtown,” Dr. Rajani said. “But astir 450 of them had to beryllium transferred out, to San Francisco, to Los Angeles. That’s not bully for the baby, not bully for the family, and it increases the hazard of complications.”
He knew that it had to change. What followed was decades of building, investing, and collaborating. From physicians and nurses to respiratory therapists, janitors, and enactment staff.
“It’s a full team,” said Dr. Rajani. “From Maternal-Fetal Medicine to neonatologists, sonographers, radiologists, surgeons, and truthful forth.”
Today, Dr. Rajani’s son, Dr. Anand Rajani, serves arsenic the aesculapian manager of Community Regional’s NICU, continuing the household legacy.
He remembers his begetter sleeping astatine the NICU each different night, a motion of his committedness to family-centered care.
He had a mission, Dr. Anand Rajani said. “And the ngo was to amended family-centered attraction and to support mothers and babies together.”
The Rajani household has besides supported Community with donations, objective leadership, and scholarships for nurses.
