Paediatrics
About the department
Assisi Atonement Hospital helps to improve the health of children and newborn babies through the Department of Paediatrics. The department is headed by Dr. B. Haridasan, MBBS, DCH.
Assisi Atonement Hospital is a Baby-Friendly Hospital. Parents are guided through every stage of their child's growth and development, and our paediatricians are on call around the clock.
Services & facilities
- Paediatric outpatient services (morning and evening)
- Casualty (accident and emergency services)
- Paediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU) for stabilising critically ill children
- Inpatient care facilities
- Level 1 neonatal unit — warmer and phototherapy unit
- Immunisation
- Paediatric audiometry
Baby-Friendly Hospital
We follow the WHO / UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative and its Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.
Paediatric audiometry
A specialised service that tests hearing in infants and young children using age-appropriate methods, so hearing loss is detected early and treated in time.
Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
Critical management procedures
- 1aComply fully with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and relevant World Health Assembly resolutions.
- 1bHave a written infant feeding policy that is routinely communicated to staff and parents.
- 1cEstablish ongoing monitoring and data-management systems.
- 2Ensure that staff have sufficient knowledge, competence and skills to support breastfeeding.
Key clinical practices
- 3Discuss the importance and management of breastfeeding with pregnant women and their families.
- 4Facilitate immediate and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact and support mothers to initiate breastfeeding as soon as possible after birth.
- 5Support mothers to initiate and maintain breastfeeding and manage common difficulties.
- 6Do not provide breastfed newborns any food or fluids other than breast milk, unless medically indicated.
- 7Enable mothers and their infants to remain together and to practise rooming-in 24 hours a day.
- 8Support mothers to recognise and respond to their infants' cues for feeding.
- 9Counsel mothers on the use and risks of feeding bottles, teats and pacifiers.
- 10Coordinate discharge so that parents and their infants have timely access to ongoing support and care.
Our specialists
Doctors in Paediatrics
OP timings
Consulting hours
Timings can change — please call before travelling.