Apollo Cradle, a hospital network for women and children, has opened a pediatric intensive care unit here to provide intensive care to critically-ill children round-the-clock.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Wednesday, Neeraj Garg, CEO, Apollo Health & Lifestyle Ltd, said with this launch, three Apollo Cradle centres have intensive care units and five more will be set up in due course.
According to the recent National Family Health Survey, India is lagging behind in achieving the infant mortality rate target of 28 deaths per 1,000 live births by 2019 set up by the Centre.