Paediatrics

Children & adolescents constitute 45 percent of the population in India thus, necessitating that major medical centres in any region have the requisite facilities to cater to the curative, diagnostic and preventive aspects of this age group.

Department of Pediatrics was headed by Dr S M Gupta from 1976 to 1989. Under his stewardship, the fledgling matured into an independent department with its own postgraduate course. In 1989, Dr N Raizada took over the reins and started a separate neonatology unit. Dr Daljit Singh became the head in 1994 and the department witnessed a rapid growth into various speciality areas. Dr B K Jain headed the department from 2003 to 2006 and added facilities and space and was followed by Dr Harmesh S Bains, who was HOD from 2006–2015, under whose leadership the department has become a major referral centre for neonatology in the region and fellowship in PICU and NICU started in the department and MD seats increased. Currently, Dr Puneet Aulakh Pooni is HOD since November 2015, she is also Director of Pediatric Fellowship Program and DMC&H. Since 2015, department has seen immense growth in the form of increase in seats from conversion of DCH to MD and from 7 to 8 MD seats in 2022. Department of Pediatrics is considered as one of the best teaching departments with state of the art “simulation based” training in PG curriculum and the main referral centre for critically ill children requiring PICU/NICU from all over the region.

Currently 8 MD students are admitted every year.

State-of-the-Art Facilities

Department of Pediatrics at Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana is a prominent referral centre for children of the entire region.

Pediatric Emergency 

• Separate section with all facilities for Pediatric and Neonatal emergencies.

Pediatric ICU 

• First 10 bedded critical care facility for children in the State and a separate 10 bedded High Dependency Unit.
• Approved by ISCCM and IAP for fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care.
• Latest ventilator, multichannel monitor and bedside bronchoscopy available

Neonatology

• Tertiary Care Nursery along with Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with state-of-the-art facilities and equipment including mechanical ventilation, total parenteral nutrition, surfactant replacement therapy, exchange transfusion, care of extremely LBW babies, iNO, amplitude EEG etc.

Pediatric Haemato-Oncology

• Treatment of various childhood malignancies and hematological disorders. 
• Dedicated day care centre for thalassemics, providing safe packed red cell transfusion, iron chelation, leukocyte filters, multidisciplinary monitoring, family support and antenatal screening.

Pediatric Nephrology

• Ultrasound guided renal biopsy, special investigations for glomerular and tubular disorders, facilities for pediatric peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis and continuous hemofiltration.

Pediatric Neurology

•  Evaluation and treatment of pediatric neurological disorders, facilities for EEG (including Video-EEG), EMG/NCV, BAER, VER, SPECT studies in children.

Special Activities

• DMC&H is first certified ALS-CPR centre accredited by IAP of the state. The department has been actively involved in conducting several courses including:

           Courses Conducted

• • ALS instructors : Dr.Puneet A Pooni, Dr Deepak Bhat, Dr GS Dhooria, Dr Siddharth, Dr.Karambir Singh Gill, Dr. Sumati Verma

1. NRP course of National Neonatology Forum
2. BLS Courses
3. Asthma Training Module
4. RNTCP TB Master Trainer
5. Respiratory Tract Infection Group Education Module (GEM) Course 

• Apart from zonal and state-level conferences, workshops have been held to impart training in Practical Pediatric Oncology, Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and Neonatal Emergencies.
• The academic achievements are highlighted by the many scientific papers published in international journals and chapters in books contributed by the departmental faculty over the last years.
• Activities related to the annual programs of IAP
• Neonatology, PG, and Undergraduate Pediatric Quiz
• Nursing Pediatric Quiz
• Breastfeeding, ORS and Adolescent Week celebrations
• Asthma Day

Speciality Clinics

• Child Welfare Clinic
• Newborn High Risk Clinic
• Asthma Clinic
• PICU follow-up clinic
• Child Guidance Clinic
• Pediatric Neurology and Epilepsy Clinic
• GI Clinic
• Immunisation Clinic
• Pediatric Nephrology Clinic
• Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Clinic
• Bed wetting clinic
• Allergy Clinic
• Chest Clinic
• High Risk Clinic
• Adolescent Clinic
• KD Clinic

Plan is to start Parenting Clinics from 1^st August, 2025

Honors, Achievements and Training

Dr Puneet Aulakh Pooni

• Visiting Fellow, Pediatric Intensive Care, RCPCH, UK
• Honorary Fellow, PICU at Royal Alexandria Hospital, Sydney, Australia
• Founder Secretary of Intensive Care chapter Punjab State Branch
• Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Cambridge University, UK
• National Executive Member Pediatric Critical Care, India
• Director of PICU Fellowship, DMC&H
• Past President of Intensive Care Chapter, Punjab
• Master Trainer of Asthma Module, TB, RTI, PALS, BLS past Joint Zonal Coordinator of IAP ALS-BLS

Dr Deepak Bhat

• Module training for Integrated Management of Neonatal & Childhood Illness (IMNCI) under WHO/UNICEF
• State level training of middle-level trainers of ICDS, Punjab

Dr Gurdeep Singh Dhooria

• Fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology from St. John's Medical College, Bangalore
• Certificate Course in Developmental Delay and Early Intervention, NIMH, Secunderabad
• IAP Pediatric Pulmonology Training Program, Chennai

Dr Jatinder Goraya

• Fellowship in Child Neurology from USA
• FRCP in Pediatric Neurology, Royal College of Physicians, Canada
• Visiting Fellow, Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, U.K.

Dr Kamaldeep Arora

Dr Siddharth Bhargava

• Selected for Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care, Cambridge University, UK
• Faculty for PICU Fellowship, DMC&H

Dr Karambir Singh Gill

• Diploma in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, DMC&H
• Fellowship in Neonatology, Cloudnine Hospital Bangalore 
• Diploma in Pediatric Allergy Immunology and Immunology 

Dr Gurpeet Singh 

Dr Sumati Verma