INTRODUCTION

Department of Pediatrics was established at Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital, Nanded in year 1993. Late Dr. R.N. Nagalgaonkar was the first Head of the Department. Since then, the department has advanced in training of medical students, high-quality patient care and management-catering to over 60,000 outdoor patients and more than 12,000 indoor patients every year from rural & tribal part of Marathwada, Vidarbha & also from neighboring states Telangana & Karnataka.

The Department has established high standards in Pediatric medicine with its state-of-the-art medical facilities with Pediatric Emergency Services, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and a round the clock availability of team of paediatricians. The department has set up of well-equipped 32 bedded PICU, 40 bedded NICU & 2 general wards with 30 beds each. Various specialty clinics are run by the department like pediatric cardiology, pediatric neurology, pediatric nephrology, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric haematology, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric asthma, immunization and neonatology.

Mission

•        To train the undergraduate & post-graduate students to acquire adequate knowledge and appropriate skills for optimally dealing with major health problems of infants and children to ensure their optimal growth and development.

•        To provide comprehensive paediatric health services.

Vision

•        To start superspeciality (DM) courses in Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care

•        To increase UG & PG intake capacity of Institution.

•        To start Fellowship Courses in Paediatric Intensive Care & other paediatric sub specialties

•        To upgrade the ICU facilities.

•        To start SNCU under NHM Scheme

•        To start Specialised Nursing courses in Neonatology& Paediatric ICU.

•        To start superspeciality (DM) courses in Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care