Strengths of Department:

• 2 Full time Professors

• 2 Honorary Professors

• 3 Associate Professors

• 2 Hon. Assistant Professors

• 7 Lecturers

• 45 Residents

Faculty:

 Professor & Head

Dr  Ashok D. Rathod (MD,DCH, DM cardio)

Professor 

• Dr Sandhya .S. Khadse

• Dr Meenu Malkani

• Dr S. D. Jambhekar

Associate Professor              

• Dr. Neeta R. Sutey

• Dr. Pallavi Sapale

• ]Dr. Minhaj A. Sheikh

 Assistant Professor         

•  Dr. Vrajesh Udani

•  Dr. Soonu Udani

Lecturer                

• Dr. Bela Verma

• Dr. Ashish Lothe

• Dr. Rekha S.

• Dr. Ganesh J.

• Dr. Sachin Desai

• Dr. Shailesh  Patil

• Dr. Rajesh Kulkarni

Student & Staff facilities:

Extensive teaching programme for undergraduate, postgraduate and nursing students  Well equipped referral library  Regular PG activities and CME  Internet access  Exposure to modern intensive care

Services Provided:  

• Existence in all the 4 hospitals affiliated to Grant Medical College

•  250 sanctioned pediatric beds

•  6 adequately staffed Units

•  3 Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

•  Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

•  Renders out patient services  to approximately 400 to 500  patients per day.

  Sir J.J.Hospital  3 Indoor wards  Isolation ward ( Infectious ward - 15 beds)  NICU ( 20 beds for 2000 deliveries)  PICU (15 beds)  OPD’s  Specialty clinics	St. Georges Hospital  General Pediatric ward – 30 beds  NICU – 10 beds for 1000 deliveries  OPD  Immunization clinic  Post natal follow up- OPD
  Cama & Albless Hospital  General Pediatric ward – 50 beds  NICU – 20 beds for 5000 deliveries  OPD  Immunization clinic  Post natal follow up- OPD	Gokuldas Tejpal Hospital  General Pediatric ward – 50 beds  OPD  Immunization clinic

  Pediatrics Speciality Clinics

• Child Guidance Centre

• Pediatrics HIV Clinic with ART centre

• Neonatal Follow-up Clinic

• Pediatric Neurology Clinic

• Day Care Thalessemia centre

LATEST ADDITIONS

• PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT :- well equipped, modern, sophisticated care to serious needy babies of low socioeconomic strata

•  HUMAN MILK BANK :- 1st in government set-up in Maharashtra, useful for many preterm / LBW babies

PERI-NATAL SERVICES

All deliveries attended by pediatricians  Caters to 2000 deliveries at Sir J.J. hospital and 5000 deliveries at Cama  hospital per year NICUs with latest equipment, ventilators and monitoring devices at the disposition

Equipments available:

• Neonatal Ventilator For respiratory support of preterm newborn, pt with RDS

• Ventilator - Infant & Pediatric For respiratory support for pt with  respiratory failure

• CPAP Machine Treatment of hypoxic patients in spontaneously breathing patients

•  Infusion  pump volumetric/ syringe Precision in IV infusion to administer vital drugs & IV fluids.

• Air Mattresses – Electrically operated To prevent bed sores, skin loss, & compession injury with air pump with alternate inflation & deflation.

•  Apnea monitor It is diagnostic for detecting apneic spells in neonates & infants

• Portable X ray machine It is useful for taking X rays of pts who can’t be shifted.

•  Pulse oxy meter To know pulse rate, oxygen saturation, pulse wave form in sick Pediatric patients.

• ECG machine To take electro cardio gram of indoor patients.

• EEG MACHINE for diagnosing seizure disorder

• Multiparameter monitor This instrument detect vital  parameters like heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, ECG, O2 saturation, temp & ET CO2

• Defibrillator Management of emergency cardiac arrhythmias

• Double Surface Phototherapy unit Treatment of neonatal jaundice

Courses offered with intake capacity:

• MBBS     :  200 STUDENTS

•  DCH        :   8  STUDENTS

•  MD          :   8 STUDENTS

Academic activities, Publications & Presentations:

Training Programs:

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• Courses – MBBS, MD, DCH

•  Elaborate teaching schedule

•  Caters to undergraduate students

•  Complete training of postgraduates with extensive exposure to intensive as well as routine care

•  Training of pediatric nurses, B.Sc. Nursing staff

PRESENTATIONS &PUBLICATIONS

• PEDICON 2007 :-15 papers presented

•  All India Women Physicians Conference  2007 : - 3 papers  Presented

•  publications in various journals over years by PG teachers and students

FUTURE PLANS

• Imparting latest technology in teaching in pediatrics at UG & PG level.

• Tertiary care to patients in true sense

• Create possibility to start super speciality courses like DM neonatology

•  Doctors trained in this institution will follow ideal management in peripheral parts of country