Paediatrics and Neonatology
Key Highlights
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Designed to provide a child friendly environment with a family centred team that supports child health care
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Round-the-clock Intensive care (NICU, PICU) available
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Inpatient facilities providing comprehensive medical care for sick children and newborn
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State-of-the-art equipment for high quality care at affordable cost
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Adopting modern methods of teaching for UG and PG students
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Promoting research through ongoing and completed multicentric clinical trials
About Paediatrics and Neonatology
- The Department of Pediatrics was established in the year 2005. Ours is a tertiary care centre with 150 Pediatric beds, apart from 20 PICU beds and 20 NICU beds. Our Paediatrics department is designed based on child friendly environment and a family centered team supporting child health care.
- The spectrum of healthy and sick children reaching this department for clinical care provides the students with unparalleled opportunities to learn and serve. Problem solving and research are central to the academic programs in the department.
- The department is committed to improve child health care through excellence in patient care, teaching and research. Poster/oral presentations of the research work done by our residents and faculties are routinely presented in many regional/national conferences. The department has published more than 40 scientific papers in the last 3 years in indexed journals of national and international repute.
What’s New? Constantly growing expertise
Paediatrics
Promotion of exclusive breast feeding among all newborns. Celebration of breast feeding week every year for past 15 years
20 bedded PICU
Dedicated Paediatric Intensivist and Paediatric team providing care to sick children 24x7
NICU – Newborn Services
Dedicated Neonatologist and NICU team taking care of 20 bedded NICU
Treatments
Care of preterm & sick newborns | 24x7 NICU & PICU service with Ventilator | Routine newborn care for all deliveries | High risk newborn follow up care |
Management of all sick children | Physiotherapy, Occupational & Speech therapy | All childhood vaccinations | Fever, asthma, diarrhea, pneumonia & other diseases |
Department Extension
2380
Our Doctors
Dr.Sagul Ramanuja Mugunthan
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Qualification
MBBS., MD
Dr. B. Gayathri Priyadharshini
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Qualification
MBBS., DNB
Additional Information
Diagnostic Services
- ROP vision screening
- OAE / ABR hearing screening
- Inborn errors of metabolism & Tandem mass spectrophotometry
- Ultrasound, MRI, CT Scan, X-ray
- EEG, ECG, NCV-Nerve Conduction Tests
- Fever Panel including cultures
- Lumbar Puncture, Bone marrow aspiration
- Arterial blood gas analysis
- Genetic evaluation
- All biochemistry & Microbiology services
Equipment
- Mechanical ventilators
- CPAP, HFNC
- Phototherapy units
- Oxygen delivery devices
- Multipara monitors
- Pulse oxymeters
- Defibrillator
- Radiant warmers & incubators
- Nebulisers & Drug infusion pumps
- Paediatric endoscope, Bronchoscope