Contact Phone:

1. 03862-242555

General OPD Timing:

Monday to Friday: 8.00am – 4.30pm

Saturday: 8.00am – 1.00pm

Services

Pediatric ward: The paediatric ward has 22 general beds that includes 4 Pediatric high dependency beds, one cubicle with 6 beds for stable newborns, specially for rooming-in babies with their mothers. The paediatric ward is located on the first floor of the hospital ward block. There is 24/7 availability of medics and nurses.

PICU/NICU: The Pediatric/neonatal intensive care unit is a mixed unit, comprising of 8 beds and one isolation bed. It is located on the second floor of the hospital. The unit is looked after by a team comprising of a Pediatric intensivist, pediatric consultants, post graduate pediatric trainees (DNB), PICU/NICU trained nurses and hospital assistants. The unit focuses on providing standard, holistic and evidence based care to all patients, and ensures in treating all patients and their relatives with dignity and respect. The unit strictly practices hand hygiene and anti septic non-touch technique (ANTT) to prevent hospital acquired infection.

The unit is well trained and equipped to manage critically ill newborns including premature, very low and extremely low birth weight babies; and critically ill children from the age of 1 month up to 16 years of age, including surgical/trauma cases. The services provided are:

• Conventional paediatric and neonatal ventilation
• Non-invasive bubble CPAP
• High flow nasal cannula oxygen
• Regular monitoring of blood gas
• Invasive blood pressure monitoring
• Etco2 monitoring for all ventilated patients
• Procedures such as peritoneal dialysis, ultrasound guided vascular access; chest tube insertion, exchange transfusion
• Hemodialysis (for bigger children)
• Bed side x-rays, ultrasound
• Bed side Echocardiography.

Pediatric Critical Care transport:

The critical care unit also provides transport service with the help of a trained team, well-equipped ALS ambulance and a transport ventilator (Hamilton). Patients are transported within the hospital for imaging purposes (CT scan). The team performs level 3 transfer of patients from other hospitals to CIHSR (retrieval), and vice versa.