Department of Pediatrics was established since the beginning of THQ Hospital. The services available in the department are outpatient, inpatient, neonatal, intensive care unit and pediatric intensive care unit. Up to 3000 children are born every year in the hospital. 20 percent of all the newborns are at high risk and need level-II or level-III care during their stay in the hospital. The faculty is considered to be of highest caliber in the district and periphery.
Aims and Objectives
Enlisted below are the aims and objectives:
- To provide outdoor and indoor facilities for poor and needy patients to free of cost throughout year
- Enhance comprehensive neonatal care on 24-hour basis in the form newborn checkup, neonatal resuscitation, Neonatal admission, phototherapy for jaundiced babies
- Provision 24hr emergency care to all pediatrics patient
- To educate mothers about importance of breast feeding & cpeanlinen preparation of food, prevention of diarrhea and communicable disease (like measly, chicken pox, T.B etc.)
- Educate the parents to prevent malnutrition by breast feeding & proper weaning
- Treat the malnourished children in stabilization center
- To provide facilities of vaccination in hospital, and motivate the health professionals, parents regarding importance of vaccination, because “Prevention is better than care”
- To conduct neonatal resuscitation workshops for nurses, doctors of peads and gynae
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Enlisted below are the SOPs:
- Ensures smooth functioning of the all units of department (OPD/Vaccination Clinic/Nursery/Pediatric Ward /Pediatric ICU)
- Responsible for assessment, diagnosis and management of pediatric patients in OPD, IPD and emergency
- Overall in charge of Pediatric OPD and conducts OPD regularly on notified days and time
- Consultant will take one planned round of the wards/nursery daily along with doctors and staff nurse to review/follow-up the old cases and examines in detail the newly admitted. Round is repeated if required
- Ensure that all newborns are being received and assessed promptly after delivery in Operation Theatre and Labor room
- Ensures availability of medicines / functioning of equipment to handle emergencies at all times in the Unit. Attends the patients with medical problems admitted in other wards as and when required
- Plans and performs Procedures on specified days & time as per hospital policy
- Performs emergency procedures on patients admitted through A & E Department as & when required
Future Plans
Enlisted below are the future plans:
- MSDS training Accreditation
- Central Air Conditioning and Heating System
- Central Oxygen supply
- Increase number of beds
- Establishment of paediatric emergency (Full resuscitation faculty equipped with tools)
- Increase Human Resource (Doctors and Staff)