Children are not small adults, and a children's intensive care unit is not an adult one with smaller beds. The hospital runs a separate paediatric intensive care unit alongside the neonatal unit and adult critical care.
What this department treats
Children reach the unit through accident and emergency or from the paediatric ward.
- Severe infection in children
- Breathing difficulty and asthma attack
- Dehydration and severe gastroenteritis
- Poisoning and accidental ingestion
- Seizures
- Post-operative children needing monitoring
- Accidents and injuries
- Children transferred from the ward
Inside the department
Paediatric ICU
A separate unit for children.
Neonatal ICU
For newborn and premature babies.
Emergency
Open 24 hours, no appointment.
24-hour diagnostics
Laboratory and imaging on site.
Getting seen
- Start at the general OPD. Between 9:00 am and 9:00 pm, pay the consultation charge and you will be seen and directed here. That charge includes the medicine prescribed for that day. In an emergency go straight to accident and emergency instead.
- Bring what you have. Photo identification, any scheme or insurance card, and earlier prescriptions, scans or reports.
- Scheme check before admission. Cards are verified before admission rather than at discharge.
- Rates are published. The same rate applies to every patient in a category, with no negotiation at the counter.