About the Department

Established in 2019, the Department of Paediatrics at AIIMS Gorakhpur is dedicated to advancing the health of infants, children, and adolescents through innovative medical care, research, education, training, and advocacy.

Our faculty comprises experienced professionals from across the nation who are committed to promoting paediatric health and research. The department offers broad-based training in general paediatrics, critical care, and paediatric subspecialties within a variety of ambulatory, inpatient, and community settings. Integrated with our educational activities, these programs provide hands-on learning to equip our graduates, postgraduates, and doctoral students with the skills required to become future advocates for children's health.

We aim to deliver state-of-the-art tertiary care services in the region and envision that our collaborations with various research organizations will result in impactful research, transforming discoveries into effective diagnostics, treatments, and preventive therapies.

The department is committed to fostering progressive research, advancing knowledge, and achieving clinical excellence, while ensuring the availability of affordable healthcare for all children in this region.

Our goal is to be leaders in child health with unsurpassed credentials. Guided by our core principles of C.A.R.E — Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence — we foster an environment of teamwork, collaboration, innovation, and inspiration.

Currently Available Services

OPD & IPD Services

The Department of Pediatrics provides comprehensive care through daily outpatient services addressing a wide spectrum of pediatric illnesses. Inpatient services include a fully functional Pediatric Ward, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Maternal & Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (MNICU), Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), and management of pediatric emergencies through the central emergency services.

Speciality Clinics

The department runs dedicated specialty clinics to ensure focused care and follow-up for chronic and complex pediatric conditions. These include:

• Pediatric Nephrology Clinic
• Pediatric Asthma Clinic
• Neurodevelopmental Clinic
• High-Risk Newborn Clinic
• Well-Baby Clinic

Medical Education

The department emphasizes experiential and learner-centric education. Training is imparted using interactive and innovative methodologies including clinical simulation, reflective learning, and self-directed learning. The goal is to nurture competent, compassionate, and critically thinking pediatric healthcare professionals.

Community Outreach Program

The department actively engages in community outreach to strengthen neonatal and pediatric care at the grassroots level. It mentors state-level primary and secondary healthcare facilities, particularly in neonatal care and nutrition. The department also houses the State Resource Centre for Nutrition, dedicated to formulating evidence-based policies for improving child nutrition and preventing malnutrition.

Courses Offered

The department runs MD Pediatrics and DM Neonatology courses along with contributing to the Institute's MBBS program. In the near future, the department plans to introduce post-doctoral fellowships in various pediatric subspecialties, further expanding advanced training opportunities for aspiring pediatricians.

FUTURE VISION

Our vision is to establish advanced level 3 Neonatal and Pediatric ICUs as well as speciality clinics for immunisation, nephrotic syndrome, thalassemia and asthma. We hope to collaborate with other stakeholders in this region to achieve our collective goals of advancement of child health in this region. We wish to establish AIIMS Gorakhpur as DBTNIDAAN Kendra for diagnosis and research activities related to genetic metabolic diseases.
We strive to have complete range of paediatric services including trauma and emergency ward, 12 bedded paediatric ward and level 2 and level 3 NICU and PICU areas. We envision the establishment of state of art, simulation laboratory facility for training of residents and faculty as well as foster research activities of critical domains in pediatrics.

OTHER INFORMATION

Courses :-

With availability of infrastructure we hope to initiate MD course, post doctoral certificate courses/fellowships for in sub specialities of paediatric medicine such as Neonatology , paediatric critical care ,nephrology etc and super speciality DM courses in Neonatology and Paediatric critical care in due course of time.