The Paediatric department of Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences is a baby & Child friendly place catering to all children from birth to adolescence (0-16 Years). The Paediatric department has both outpatient and inpatient services. We currently have daily outpatient facilities covered by two units.

We run a Well Baby Clinic on Thursdays. Clinics for Asthma, Tuberculosis, Seizures and Adolescent Care and Play Way method are on the anvil. We offer regular health checkup for school children every day. For children with special needs like handicapped children, children from orphanages and those hailing very low Social-Economic group we offer free services.

Psychological assessment and developmental assessment are carried out by the Child Psychologist. Health education for parents of patients and school children are done by the Social Worker.

The inpatient services to treat critically ill children and neonates include

• Spacious, child-friendly sixty bedded general ward,
• Fully equipped Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
• Intramural Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU)
• Extramural NICU. Both the PICU and NICU

We have facilities for

• Ventilation
• Phototherapy
• Exchange Transfusion
• Peritoneal Dialysis
• Thermo Regulation (Incubators)

Our Neonatal Services are being recognized in and around Pondicherry as evidenced by the increasing number of out born neonatal referrals. We have successfully used surfactant therapy for both intramural and extramural neonates with hyaline membrane disease and salvaged premise with a birth weight of as low as 700 gms and 27 weeks gestations are evidences of our care.

Teaching & Training
We have been approved by the National Board for training two Postgraduates per year. On the academic front we are teaching both undergraduates and D.N.B. post graduates. Perinatal meeting & Seminars are held once a month with obstetric collogues. We also take part in the integrated teaching programme for undergraduates.