Jeonbuk National University Hospital Presents Attachment Dolls to Discharged Newborns for the First Time

Female Infant Born at 24 Weeks 6 Days, 760g, Discharged Healthy After About 140 Days

"Overcoming Survival Limits... Result of Medical Staff's Efforts to Protect Young Life"

Jeonbuk National University Hospital (Director Yoo Hee-cheol) delivered a hospital mascot attachment doll to a neonate born at 24 weeks of extreme prematurity who was discharged in good health after neonatal intensive care, wishing for happiness.

According to Jeonbuk National University Hospital on the 22nd, Han-yul, who was born on April 1 at 24 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy weighing 760g, completed about 140 days of treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit and was discharged.

On the 22nd, Jeonbuk National University Hospital presented the first attachment doll, made as the hospital mascot, to a neonate who was born at 24 weeks as an extremely premature infant and was discharged in good health after neonatal intensive care. The doll is the health guardian fairy "Haengbomi."
[Photo by Jeonbuk National University Hospital]

Han, born via natural delivery, was unable to breathe on her own at birth and was in a dangerous state with a heart rate below 60 beats per minute.

At birth, the head professor and nurse of the neonatal intensive care unit waited in the operating room and took emergency measures including intubation immediately after birth, then moved her to the neonatal intensive care unit in an incubator.

Afterwards, Han continued ventilator treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit and grew while overcoming difficult crises such as necrotizing enterocolitis accompanied by abdominal distension and feeding intolerance, and surgeries due to retinopathy of prematurity.

Han-yul weighed 760g at birth but her weight tripled to 3.3kg at discharge, and her height grew over 15cm to 49cm.

Professor Kim Hyun-ho of the neonatal intensive care unit said, “The good outcome from overcoming the survival limit and reaching discharge was the result of the efforts of all medical staff who endured difficult times to protect the young life,” adding, “We will continue to pay close attention and effort so that the child grows up healthy after discharge.”

On this day, the hospital celebrated Han-yul’s discharge by presenting the first attachment doll made as the hospital mascot.

The attachment doll was specially made to celebrate the birth of the child at Jeonbuk National University Hospital and to wish for health. The mascots are three types: 'Haengbeom-i' representing a doctor, 'Haengbugi' symbolizing staff, and 'Haengbomi,' the health guardian fairy.

In the future, all neonates born and discharged from the hospital will be gifted attachment dolls with numbers attached according to the parents’ wishes.

Director Yoo Hee-cheol said, “I am most pleased that a life born with difficulty was discharged in good health, and I deeply respect the medical staff who worked hard to protect life under difficult circumstances,” adding, “We will actively support all precious lives born in the hospital to grow up healthy.”

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