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Baby Dakota Foundation

Phone: +61 2 5611 2119

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15.01.2022 For those who are wondering, we will soon be able to accept donations to help get our work truly underway. Once we have this organised we will let everyone know and instruct on the different donation options. Every little bit counts so if you are wanting to help out it would be beyond appreciated

14.01.2022 100 likes in 2 days! How amazing is the support we are receiving. A HUGE thank you to everyone who has liked or shared our page or posts. Our reach is extending beyond anything we imagined and if we can keep it going we will make a massive difference to our regional and rural hospitals. They say it takes a vilage to raise a child. Well, Koda's village is getting bigger by the day. Thank you all.

09.01.2022 From us to you, Merry Christmas! We hope you all had a wonderful day full of love, laughter and good company

09.01.2022 In July 2019, Baby Dakota was born at 26 weeks, weighing 494gms after her mother developed severe and rapid pre-eclampsia. Being born at a regional hospital that is not equipped for births under 34 weeks, meant that Dakota required the assistance of the NNETS team (Northern Neonatal Transport Services). Dakota was to be intubated, sedated and transferred to a major hospital that can facilitate Neonates under 34 weeks, for the care she required. Unfortunately, Baby Dakota was ...too small and even NNETS did not have the equipment required to treat her to get her to another hospital. After 5 hours of fighting, Baby Dakota passed away. Dakota was the smallest baby and earliest pregnancy delivered at Grafton Base Hospital. If Dakota had of been born at a hospital with a NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) and the equipment she needed at birth, it is very possible she would be here with us today. Our goal is to see that no more little lives are lost because a hospital doesn't have the equipment or facilities to assist and treat pre-term birth. Every hospital should be able to provide the necessary medical treatment required for any patient that seeks treatment. There should be no limitations placed on medical practitioners as to the treatment they can provide due to lack of equipment and facilities. The Baby Dakota Foundation will raise funds to purchase necessary equipment needed in regional and rural hospitals in order to facilitate pre-term births from 24 weeks, as well as provide critical equipment and facilities to other departments of hospitals including but not limited to mental health, oncology, ICU (Intensive Care Units), maternity, antenatal, emergency, SCN (Special Care Nursery), paediatrics, gynaecology/obstetrics, medical imaging, palliative care, pathology, anaesthetics, dispensary, renal, ophthalmology, rehabilitation etc. Our mission is to see every regional and rural hospital equipped with the equipment and facilities required to provide all the services a metropolitan hospital is able to. If Grafton Base had of had just one NICU bed facility available, Baby Dakota would have had a much better chance. We believe everyone is entitled to adequate and appropriate healthcare and we are going to provide that to our countries regional and rural areas one hospital at a time.