Department of Paediatrics

The department has 200 beds including 36 bedded Level–III NICU. It attends to about 15000 deliveries and more than 2000 admission in the NICU. Department runs a state of art Thalassaemia Day Care Centre with Iron Chelation Therapy facility. The Pediatrics Casualty is well equipped to treat all childhood emergencies. The department has started providing specialized services to the community by establishing a Child Development Clinic as well as a Hemophilia Day Care Centre.

Neonatal intensive care unit practices universal breast milk feeding which is a remarkable achievement. All research work is being done on basic health problems relevant to our country. Three students who did research in the department presented their papers in the Annual National Conference of IAP and two of them won Gold Medal. Department provides teaching also to students of Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for Hearing Handicapped, Govt. of India, and In-service Training to Nurses and Medical Officer under RCH Programme, Govt. of India.