INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH, KOLKATA
The Institute of Child Health (ICH) was set up by Dr K.C. Chaudhuri, the doyen of Indian pediatrics, in Kolkata in 1956. This is a trust run hospital on a no-profit ideal.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister, inaugurated the institute on 16 January 1957. ICH continues to offer medical and surgical services to the ailing, and especially, the under- privileged children of the society.
ICH promotes pediatrics as a prime branch of study and investigation in medical teaching and practice in India. It embodies a medical vision: the optimal development of a healthy child into a healthy individual. Yes, it is taking care of ailing children “in every possible way.”
INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH, KOLKATA
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2016-17 |
2017-18 |
2018-19 |
2019-20 |
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Outpatient's Treatment |
73655 |
74234 |
79695 |
77033 |
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Indoor Admission |
10010 |
10969 |
117119 |
11779 |
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Surgery |
1390 |
1268 |
1306 |
1494 |
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Surgery For Client Lip And Palate |
237 |
187 |
168 |
163 |
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Laboratory Investigation |
190174 |
192053 |
245135 |
274639 |
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Immunization |
9174 |
8211 |
8211 |
7046 |
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Allergy Treatment |
5277 |
5478 |
5369 |
4935 |
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Radiology & Imaging |
16010 |
16297 |
26346 |
20548 |
MISSION AND VISION
The principal object of Institute of Child Health Trust, as defined by its core ideology and enshrined in Memorandum and Articles of Association of Institute of Child Health Trust, is to work towards child healthcare and advance medical education for the public benefit.
Our Mission:
Provide holistic care for overall health and best treatment to children in disease.
Provide medical consultancy in paediatric medicine and surgery to patients and counselling and guidance to children and young people.
Educate and train professionals in paediatric medicine and surgery through modern medicine. Also educate allied professionals, caretakers and people at large in child health.
Provide dissemination of new knowledge/ technical knowhow in the paediatric domain for advancement of medical science through active research, training, interactive academic exercises, and publications.
Work for the needy, downtrodden, abandoned and/or under-privileged children by providing medical services free of cost, and actively promoting fund raising for the cause of child development and care.
Our Vision
is a world where all children enjoy a healthy, disease-free and fruitful childhood and that medical professionals of the country can strive to achieve the vision through excellent education and training in paediatrics.
Our core belief is quality treatment and care of the child patient at nominal costs. We believe in the power of education to help individuals fulfill their potential and benefit society. In conducting our work, we seek to embody the following values :
Excellence in imparting treatment and care to our patients; and providing quality, up-to-date modern medical education to the budding pediatricians.
Integrity in the way we build trust and bring purpose to our work as an educational trust hospital.
Accountability through rigorous and transparent assessment of our performance.
Collaboration by working together across teams and in partnership with clients and customers to build capacity.
We seek to apply these values to all of our activities, to our interaction with our clients - our patients and, students, and to our relationship with our beneficiaries.
Public Benefit
Trustees have also given careful consideration to the general guidance on public benefit through healthcare and education and are satisfied that all the Trust’s work is for the public benefit. The Strategic Report sets out our activity in more detail.
New Building
Over the years, the 50 bedded hospital had to be expanded to 200 bedded to fulfill the need for the growing patients admission and treatment and MCI requirements of a post graduate teaching hospital. The main building being constructed 6- years before and now with encroachment of newer buildings around it have helped us to accommodate the various facilities but the scattered location of the related department at times does create a lack in smooth delivery of the management.The need for expansion of the various specialty department – PICU, Hemato-oncology, Nephrology along with diagnostics facility would require a new space The new building would accommodate all the different department in a much oriented manner which would facilitate and optimize the delivery of the healthcare management.The main building would have the outdoor facility of all the specialty, hostel accommodation of the doctors and nurses and the rest would be converted to a nursing college which would help our patients to get a better nursing care.
Advances in Diagnostics and Critical care management facility
With the awareness of healthcare development, through media and technology, the population at large seek for a diagnosis of each and every disease of their child. Overall, in the eastern sector, the diagnostic facility is quite less for the uncommon/rare disease which are no longer uncommon nor rare amongst the patients.
With the installation of all these diagnostic equipment, ICH would be able to provide diagnostic facility of most of the diseases, malignancies, genetic, endocrine, autoimmune etc at a relatively low cost.
Appeal
The institute over 60 years, has followed the pathway of dedication amongst all medical professionals who have supported the cause whole heartedly and treated all the poor patients with fullest care.
The donors over the years have also offered repeat donations after seeing the track record. We would request you to please help us in the expansion not only by the equipment provision but also helping us to build the new construction, without which it would be difficult to carry this noble effort another 60 years ahead.