AAP News Vol. 1 No. 6 June 1985, p. 1
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Plea from Buenos Aires: pediatric ICU equipment needed

The Hospital de Clinicas of the University of Buenos Aires Medical School in Argentina houses 20 beds for children younger than 2 years and 30 beds for older children. In the neonatalogy section, there are 30 cribs for newborns and 20 cribs for newborns requiring neonatal intensive care. The hospital also features a modern adult intensive care unit (ICU).

Although the Hospital de Clinicas operates in a capital city of nearly 4 million people and treats children who are undernourished, dehydrated and sufferring from diarrhea, gastroenteritis, sepsis, renal and respiratory problems, it lacks an ICU for children aged 1 to 10 years.