Facilities and Services

The NICU/SNICU/HDUN Nurseries are located on the first floor of the hospital building. The NICU is a 16-bed unit.

The High Dependency Newborn Unit is a 15-bed unit.

The SNICU is a 10- bed unit

It is designated Level III (as per AAP 2012 guidelines) Regional Referral unit for newborn intensive care in the Kolar district of Karnataka. Our Level III sub-specialty—
• Provides sustained life support and comprehensive care for infants < 32wk and < 1500 g, and all critically ill infants,
• Provides a full range of respiratory support which may include conventional ventilation,
• Provides prompt and on-site access to a full range of pediatric medical subspecialists, pediatric surgical specialists, and pediatric anesthesiologists on-site or at a closely related institution,
• Has capability to perform advanced imaging with interpretation on an urgent basis, including computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and echocardiography.

The High Dependency Newborn Unit cares for those infants who do not require acute intensive care. It is a primary care unit designed to care for healthy infants born to both low and high-risk mothers and infants who no longer require intensive care, but are not ready for discharge.

The Sick Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nursery caters to all neonates transferred from other hospitals of the district.

The pediatric Intensive Care Unit is located on the first floor of the hospital building. It comprises 10 beds with state-of-the-art facilities managed by dedicated faculty members with a team of residents.

Four Paediatric Wards comprising of 30 beds each, taken care of by 4 teams headed by a senior consultant.