The affected baby look healthy at birth however, there may be hidden disorders which may manifest in future, leading to irreversible damage like mental and physical retardation.

New born Screening allows early diagnosis of these disorders & helps prevent serious outcomes.

Many of these disorders are now manageable by simple dietary measures, yet when undiagnosed and untreated they have the potential to cause serious medical problems such as irreversible mental and physical retardation and in some cases even death.

Hence early & accurate diagnosis of these metabolic genetic disorders is very important in determining long term outcome.