Faculty of Medical Sciences > Pediatric Surgery > In Patient Services
In Patient Services
Over the years the department has grown significantly and provides almost all types of pediatric Surgical services. Functionally the department is divided in two types of services - Elective services and Emergency services.
Elective Services
The elective services run with 50 general beds and 2 operation theatres. All the 50 beds are motorized four section beds and all are in an air conditioned wards. Each bed has central suction and central oxygen supply ports, one sister in charge, 24 staff nurses, 10 sick attendants and 12 sweepers work round the clock to provide essential services to the patients. There is a guard for round the clock safety of patients, cleaning services keeps the wards clean round the clock.
There are 2 modern state of the art operation theatres each equipped with a separate centralized air conditioning withmultiple central suction and central gas supply ports for anesthesia, anesthesia work stations (2 Drager), pediatric surgical operation tables and OT Lights (2), electrosurgical units (2 Erbe), with laparoscopic instrument, Colonoscopy, Bronchoscope and Optical Laryngoscope with other importantequipment available in OT are - Operating loops, defibrillators. The routine OT runs 4 days a week (no routine OT on Tuesday,Saturday and Sunday), but elective emergencies are taken up 24x7. The Pediatricanesthesia is provided by dedicated senior Pediatricanesthetist and their team.
Emergency Services - The emergency services run with 20 dedicated emergency beds (10Neonatal postop beds and 10 pediatric beds) and one dedicated operation theatre (runs 24x7). The emergency operation theatre is equipped with air conditioning, central suction and central oxygen supply ports for anesthesia, anesthesia work stations (1Drager), pediatric operation tables (1) and OT Lights (1), electrosurgical units (1 Erbe), Our Neonatal ICU is well equipped with ventilators (2) and multipara monitors (10) with facilities of warmers (Drager)