Paediatrics

This service was started in 1974. Complex surgical conditions in newborn babies and children are performed with excellent results.

A dedicated paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery programme was started in 2007. Since then, our hospital has performed more than 3000 transcatheter interventions and more than 2500 open cardiac surgeries in children and adults with congenital heart diseases. Our average paediatric cardiology OPD is 275 cases per month. Our hospital is equipped to perform transcatheter interventions and open heart surgeries in all ages, ranging from day one children to adults.

• We perform balloon aortic, pulmonary, and mitral valvotomy in all children, including newborns, and we also do device closure for ASD, VSD, and PDA regularly. Apart from the interventions for those common ailments, we do balloon dilatation and stenting of the coarctation of the aorta and pulmonary stenosis, and device closure of uncommon ailments such as aortopulmonary window, device or coil closure of fistulas such as coronary AV fistula, pulmonary AV fistula, aortopulmonary collaterals, and other rare fistulas.

• We have a structured fetal echocardiogram program to identify congenital heart diseases antenatally and follow those children till birth. Our neonatal intensive care unit is well equipped to deal with those cardiac cases, including maintaining the ductus arteriosus with prostaglandins and performing emergency bedside atrial septostomy until such children are ready for definitive procedures.

• Our hospital has regular academic sessions for postgraduates, nurses, and other paramedical staff as a part of our continuous medical education programme. We publish papers in indexed journals regularly. One of the landmark papers published in the Paediatric Cardiology journal was the device closure of VSD using a muscular VSD device through retrograde technique. Our center is the first  to start doing device closure of subpulmonic VSD in the world.

Paediatric Pulmonology

We offer the following comprehensive diagnostic and treatment facilities:

•  Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Diagnostics, 1st Center in South India
• Cystic fibrosis diagnostics, including sweat testing
•  Paediatric flexible bronchoscopy
•  Primary immune deficiency and rare lung disease evaluation
• Allergic testing, including the skin prick test
• Lung function testing for children

Paediatric Infectious Diseases

Paediatric Infectious Diseases is an emerging yet important subspecialty of Paediatrics with a major focus on prompt diagnosis and optimal management of common and uncommon childhood infections, both on an outpatient and inpatient basis, with appropriate and timely antibiotic usage.

It deals with the diagnosis and management of

• Tropical infections, including Dengue, Typhoid, Rickettsial infections, and
  malaria
• Common respiratory, gastrointestinal, and urinary infections
• Chronic infections, including tuberculosis, HIV, and other uncommon infections
• Congenital infections
• Pyrexia of unknown origin
• Health care associated infections
• Chemotherapy/Febrile Neutropenia-Related Infections
• Transplant associated infections (Bone marrow or solid organ transplants)
• Infections in children with inborn errors of immunity
• Vaccination in special situations

Paediatric Neurology

Manned by two well-known neurologists. We offer both outpatient and inpatient care for children with acute and chronic neurological problems. There is also a special neurodevelopmental clinic for ex-NICU children and children with special needs. A multidisciplinary team includes a speech therapist and a physiotherapist.

Paediatric Gastroenterology

• Got trained in the super specialty from hospitals in London and Manchester in the UK.
• Has expertise in managing
  • • Gastroesophageal reflux disease, cow’s milk protein allergy, and other food allergies
    • Management of recurrent abdominal pain and functional gastrointestinal disorders
    • Investigation and treatment of chronic diarrhea and PR bleeding
    • Work up of childhood liver disease and prolonged neonatal jaundice
    • Treatment of Pancreatitis
    • Performing upper GI endoscopy, variceal banding, sclerotherapy, gastrostomy feeding tube, colonoscopy, and polypectomy