Diseases & Treatment
Fortis Hospitals offers high-quality, accessible, and comprehensive services to children, adolescents, and families. Our physicians were among the first to standardize the study of pediatric disease,.
Renowned not only for the provision of comprehensive primary care, but also for the treatment of complex medical, psychosocial, and developmental issues, using a multidisciplinary team approach in the care of children and their families. Your care team may include primary care pediatricians, paediatric cardiologist, Paediatric nephrologist pediatric surgeons, nursing support staff, specialists in child psychiatry and child development, nutritionists. All of our services are delivered by professional staff with paediatric-specific training and certification.
Outpatient Services
We offer primary, specialty, and enhanced outpatient services for children and adolescents with children play area and breast feeding area
Medical Specialties
The full spectrum of paediatric medical specialty care is provided by board-certified pediatric specialty physicians.
- Asthma Management multidisciplinary care is provided for children and adolescents with asthma, with an emphasis on preventing asthma attacks and optimizing health.
- Allergy evaluation and treatment of allergies by a physician who is board-certified in pediatrics and allergy-immunology
- Cardiology evaluation and management of children with congenital heart disease, heart rhythm disturbances, and other conditions affecting the heart and circulation with outpatient ECHO cardiography facility.
- Paediatric Nephrology clinic evaluation and management of children with disorders of the kidney
- Paediatric Dentistry includes the full range of dental services for children, from routine preventive care to operative management of complicated dental disease
- Dermatology a widely recognized service for the care of children with skin disorders
- Endocrinology evaluation and management of disorders of growth, puberty, and sexual development, and disturbances of thyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands
- Neurology evaluation and management of children with seizures and other diseases of the nervous system
Paediatric Surgical Specialties
- Paediatric Surgery surgical care and postoperative management for infants, children, and youth with such conditions as appendicitis, gall bladder disease, intestinal obstructions, abdominal trauma, and intra-abdominal tumors
- Neurosurgery paediatric patients are seen in the adult neurosurgery clinic, or in the offices of the paediatric neurosurgeons for follow-up of neurosurgical problems, such as head trauma, hydrocephalus, and craniosynostosis.
- Orthopaedics evaluation and management of bone and joint disorders, including hip dysplasia, foot deformity, neuromuscular diseases affecting the limbs, traumatic injuries, tumors, and infections
- Plastic Surgery highly specialised services available for children and adolescents
- Urology surgical and postoperative management of conditions such as congenital anomalies of the urinary tract and chronic urinary tract infections with obstruction to urine flow, as well as diseases of the bladder
Paediatric Inpatient Services
- This 6-bed unit provides care to children who are hospitalized with a wide range of medical and surgical conditions, such as asthma, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, appendicitis, trauma, and infectious diseases. The full range of needed medical and surgical care, including nursing support, nutritional services, respiratory therapy, radiology is provided.
- Newborn Nursery
Routine newborn care is provided to mothers and infants. Special emphasis is placed on mother-infant bonding, breastfeeding support, and counselling regarding newborn care. - Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Children who are seriously ill and require specialized monitoring, cardiac, and/or respiratory support receive highly specialized care under the supervision of board-certified paediatric intensivists, with the consultation of other paediatric specialty services as needed. - Radiology the full range of imaging services including x-rays, CT scanning,.
- Audiology, Hearing, and Speech certified audiologists and speech pathologists with specialized paediatric training, offering audiology and speech evaluations, speech therapy, recommendations for hearing augmentation when needed, and fitting for hearing aids
- Phlebotomy technicians with training and experience in drawing blood from children, both in the paediatric clinics and on the inpatient units
Areas Of Care
Our State-of-the-Art NICU
Fortis (NICU), is a state-of-the-art facility. Reduce the stress of the NICU experience and help the immediate and long-term health of premature babies and other critically ill infants.
Our state-of-the-art Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides following services
We can manage extreme premature babies like 26 weeker and extreme low birthweight babies like only 500 gms at birth. We have latest research-based designs to nurture and enhance a premature infant's development. In our NICU, we provide complex care for sick and premature infants and have available multiple subspecialty consults,
We can provide all sorts of respiratory support of babies with breathing difficulties including hood oxygen, CPCP, invasive ventilation with high quality neonatal ventilator, high frequency ossilation where conventional ventilation fails to work,
We can monitor blood pressure both by invasive and noninvasive way where babies are too sick and not able to maintain blood pressure.Total parental nutrition for babies who are not able to feed for their illness or prematurity
Photo therapy and exchange transfusion for neonatal jaundice.
Provide prompt and readily available access to a full range of pediatric medical subspecialists like neurologist and endocrinologist
Peritoneal dialysis for babies with renal failure with supervision of Paediatric Nephrologist
Neonatal Echocardiography for any type of congenital cardiac problem.
All type of Neonatal surgery by experienced Paediatric surgeon and anaethesiologist. Complicated surgical birth defect like Oesophageal atresia (absent foodpipe), absent Anus(where opening for potty is absent), intestinal obstruction or malrotation (tangling of foodpipe)
Perform advanced imaging, with interpretation on an urgent basis, including computed tomography, MRI, and echocardiography laser surgery for retinopathy of prematurity, High-tech incubators,
Neonatal orthopaedic support for patients who has problem in knee or ankle.
Blood transfusion for babies with severe anaemia.
Classes are offered to NICU parents and family members interested in learning more about various topics, including: parenting, prematurity, breastfeeding, kangaroo and developmental care. We offer classes on infant CPR, SIDS friends and extended family.
24-hour Rooming for mom and baby
Skin-to-Skin Contact education for new moms and their newborns
24/7 consult with specialty services, such as: Hematology, Neurology, microbiology Infectious Diseases
24-hour visitation policy for parents and Kangaroo mother care
Breastfeeding education room and a breast milk refrigerator, swaddle bathing, and skin-to-skin .We accept high-risk neonatal transports 24/7.
NEST (Neonatal stabilisation and transport)
Neonates needing special or intensive care should preferably be transported by a skilled transport team through an organized teamwork. Appropriate equipments and vehicle customized for neonates should be available for safe transport. Pre-transport stabilization is the most vital step in the whole process of transport. We have developed an efficient transport systems for the sick or preterm babies to our center with expertise and facilities for the provision of multi-organ intensive care during the process of transport for those babies who are born in smaller center with less facilities to improve outcomes. This service is active for 24hrs.
At-Risk Newborns
We deliver round-the-clock treatment for a number of conditions, including:
- Breathing problems
- Premature birth
- Conditions affecting the brain
- Heart conditions
- Stomach and digestive disorders
- Jaundice
- Anemia
- Infections
- Feeding difficulties
- Failure to thrive
- Surgical problem from Birth like gut obstruction or malrotation,
- Kidney problem from birth