RE: Brighton NHS baby unit15 Jan 2024 10:32
"It is entirely logical that babies should be tested for adverse antibiotic reactions when being admitted to the ward. Then, if antibiotics are needed the correct medication can be administered in a timely fashion.
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It is entirely logical to test every premature baby but NHS would need alot of funds to do this. Say it takes 1 hour in total to take the cheek swab, get it tested and enter the result in whatever computer system they have. That 1 hour per premature baby can stack up in terms of total man hours and then there is the cost: hourly rate + the cost of the blanket testing.
But this is the western world you are talking about where prevention is seen as an abuse of peoples freedom. If prevention was the name of the game, motorized vehicles, smoking and drinking would be banned on pain of a large custodial sentence or even death in order to prevent premature mass death. However, not all nations think like the western nations - -perhaps incredibly strict and rich countries eg Saudia Arabia might blanket test all premature babies.....