The Department of Pediatrics, a 78 bedded well-equipped unit, started as a small ward in DHQ Hospital, Faisalabad. It is now a well established unit in Allied Hospital, Faisalabad providing round the clock emergency,T preventive and curative services to children of Faisalabad and its peripheral suburbs. It also provides peri-natal coverage to neonates delivered at Obstetrics Department Allied Hospital, Faisalabad. The ward is further divided into various subsections like Intensive Care, Nephrology, Hematology, Gastroenterology and Neonatology. The Neonatal Unit is one of the busiest unit in Faisalabad. It has Central Oxygen Supply, incubators, pulse oximeters, cardiac monitors, phototherapy units and of course trained & dedicated staff. It has a capacity of 20 beds, which is often over occupied.

The admissions of the patients in the Pediatric Unit is increasing day be day. In the year 2005, more than 7500 children were admitted in the ward and most of them as emergency. This is attributed to extended care, daily consultant OPD, follow-up clinics and free medicines provided to the admitted patients with the help of affluent citizens.

The Department of Pediatrics is headed by Professor Dr. Ghulam Raza Baloch. The teaching staff includes one Associate Professor, two Assistant Professors and a Senior Registrar. The teaching staff is actively engaged in teaching of both under graduate and post-graduate students along with the research activities. There are 16 FCPS and 3 MCPS trainees at present and more than a dozen fellow have been produced during last 5 years. About 17 research papers have also been published in the various journals and many others are in the pipeline. We are also on the way to improve our Intensive Care and Neonatal Unit to provide advanced pediatric life support. The creation of a second Pediatric Unit is in process and is going to be accomplished soon. We intend to make this unit a center of excellence and a model tertiary care referral center in future with the help of Hospital and college administration.

Prof. Dr. Ghulam Raza Baloach
Head of Department

Dr. Asghar Butt