Department Of Peadiatrics, Neonatalogy & Peadiatric Surgery
The Department of Paediatrics at VMML aims to make a difference to the lives of children and adolescents by recognizing the needs of those between 0 and 18 years of age
The department provides children and care givers with easy access to the best of paediatric facilities and services. It blends clinical care with knowledge gained through intensive research to ensure that the stars of tomorrow continue to burn bright as ever.
The department ensures that the healing environment is child-friendly and the mood is sunny. It provides leading edge technology and expertise through a plethora of paediatric services including PICU, NICU, Nephrology, Child Psychology, Childhood Obesity Management, Vaccination Clinic & Neonatal Screening, Pulmonology, Neurology, Surgery and Audiology
Services & Treatment
- • Neonatalogy
- • Bronchiolitis
- • Common cough, cold and fever
- • Asthma and other respiratory disorders
- • Gastrointestinal disorders like diarrhea, constipation, colic pain, vomiting
- • Skin infections
- • Nutrition counselling for toddlers and children detailing about when, why, what and how to start solids
- • Immunization
- • Paediatric and adolescent endocrinology (problems regarding growth, puberty, thyroid, diabetes, obesity, bone and calcium disorders etc.)
Tertiary Level NICU Services
- • Level 3 Neonatal Care
- • Comprehensive Support
- • Intensive Care, Special Care and Isolation Beds with provision to ventilate babies
- • Provision of High Frequency Ventilation
- • Management of Grossly Preterm Neonates (24-25 weeks) and Very Low Birth Weight Infants (500 gms)
- • Advanced procedures including High Frequency Ventilation, Invasive Monitoring and Exchange Transfusion
- • Advanced Neonatal Transport Incubator to transport sick neonates
- • Neonatal Dialysis
- • Cardiology Referral Services
Paediatric Surgery deals with surgical care for children from the day of their birth to 18 years of age. The common problems that are treated by a paediatric surgery team include-
- • Congenital and developmental anomalies
- • Infectious conditions
- • Trauma and injuries
- • Solid tumours
- • Cancers
Surgical Services & treatment
- • Elective and Emergency Neonatal Surgery
- • General Surgery
- • Urology, including Endourology and Reconstructive Urology
- • Minimally Invasive Surgery
- • Urodynamic Studies
- • Laparoscopy
- • Thoracoscopy
- • Vascular Surgery, including insertion of central lines, ports, Haemodialysis lines and construction of AV fistula
