Institute Of Child Health, Calcutta

Name :

Institute Of Child Health, Calcutta

Address  :

IB-193, Sector-III

Town  :

Kolkata

State  :

West Bengal

Country  :

INDIA

Post Code:

700017

Phone  :

9830897576

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

ichcal@yahoo.com

Description

The Institution Today

The Institute of Child Health continues to offer medical and surgical services to the ailing and especially the underprivileged children of the society It has now a hospital with two hundred beds Around 50000 children attend the outpatients department every year We offer preventive as well as curative services The special clinics such as Asthma Clinic Kidney Clinic Growth Clinic Dermatology Clinic Neurology Clinic and Nivedita Centre for Challenged Children cover all aspects of child health

The institute also carries on its obligations as an organization for imparting pediatric education recognised by the Medical Council of India It is a postgraduate teaching centre affiliated to the University of Calcutta Diploma in Child Health Doctorate in Medicine and Diploma of National Board courses are offered to postgraduate students Nine graduate students of the University of Calcutta enroll each year for the postgraduate DCH course offered at the institute Six students enroll for the MD course offered at the institute every year All postgraduate admission in DCH and MD courses are enrouted though West Bengal University of Health Sciences in accordance to the Medical Council of India guidelines The Institute does not have any private medical seats all seats are being Government seats One student enroll for the DNB course in Pediatric Medicine offered at the institute each year Six students are enrolled for Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology DMLT course every year The institute has been recognized as a centre for DNB practical examination in April 2003 The institute has applied to the Medical Council of India so that the Institute is able to offer the Master of Chirurgerie course in Pediatric Surgery Few postgraduate students work towards their PhD at the institute as well Over twenty individuals have completed their PhDs from this Institute

History

The Institute of Child Health was set up by Dr KC Chaudhuri the doyen of Indian pediatrics in Kolkata in 1956 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the then Prime Minister inaugurated the institute on 16 January 1957 It is the first pediatric institute of India

The event ushered in a new era for organized pediatrics in India It was the earliest recognition in India of the necessity for institutions catering for child health What Dr KC Chaudhuri had in mind was not only a childrens hospital but an institution with integrated services promotive preventive and curative services for children and also a centre for teaching and research where the child would be considered in his totality his emotional intellectual and physical needs as well as his relation to the milieu Chaudhuri 1958a Dr KC Chaudhuri set forth for the first time the concept of positive and total child care in India

The foundation stone of the Institute of Child Health was laid on 12 August 1954 The Corporation of Calcutta sanctioned the plan to build a small Lshaped building covering an area of 11000 sq ft for both the outpatient department and the inpatient department The construction of the buildings began on 14 April 1955 the day the Corporation granted its sanction

The outpatient department with fullfledged laboratory services of the institute opened on 23 January 1956 The inpatient department with its fifty beds opened on 15 June 1956 Facilities for the newborn were available as well