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Under the leadership of Sardar Vallavbhai Patel, the then Home
Minister of India, after the shifting of Governor's House of the
present captial of Orissa (Bhubaneswar ) , this building was handed
over to Indian Red Cross Society to start a children hospital.
Subsequently , it was taken over by the state Govt. on 01.04.1966
and started in the name of Institute of Paediatric and Child Health
with a mission to develop it as an independent post graduate
institute of paediatrics at par with other National level P.G
Institute . In memory of the great national leader Sardar Vallavbhai
Patel , this hospital has been named as Sardar Vallavbhai Patel Post
Graduate Institute of Pediatrics (SVP PGIP).
The Institute sprawls over an area of 23 acres of land , situated
on the bank of river Kathajodi a branch of Mahanadi. The hospital
buildings stand amidst a lot of trees and gardens.
This Post Graduate Paediatric Institute has 200 indoor beds at
present including 20 beds in Paediatric Surgery,18 beds for
Newborns, 12 beds for Paediatric I.C.U., and 12 special cabins to
cater children patients upto 14 yrs of age. The O.P.D. complex
consists of causality department, OPD for Paediatrics Medicine,
Pediatric Surgery, Paediatric Psychiatry, Paediatric
Gastroenterology, Paediatric Cardiology and Family Welfare with
Immunisation clinic.There is also provision for Orthopedics, Dental
and E.N.T. OPD care for children. The diagnostic facilities
available are Radiology and Ultrasonography in O.P.D complex ,
Pathology, Microbiology and Biochemistry laboratories in the New
Medical Ward Building.
After functioning of new hospital building '' Advanced Care &
Research Centre'' constructed under japanese Grant-in-aid project
and Development of Neonatology'' under Sakhigopal Project, the total
no. beds will be enhanced from 200 to 356. In the building of
'Advanced Care & Research Centre' there will be facilities for 12
paediatric ICU, 9 Neonatal ICU, 30 Newborn beds, 45 general beds and
20 paediatric surgery beds .
Besides the above facilities, the institute has a
Library-cum-Seminar hall. For academic activities. 24 P.G. students
belonging to three year degree course in M.D Paediatrics are trained
here by 12 senior faculty members and 11 junior teachers.
M.Ch. course in Paediatric Surgery is commencing from current year
with 1 seat per year.
The Institute has a Governing Body under the Chairmanship of RDC
(CD) , Cuttack. Besides, State Govt. has formed a ''Swasthya Bikash
Samittee'' of SVPPG Institute of Paediatrics under the chairmanship
of RDC (CD) , Cuttack, where officials from different related
departments and SCB Medical College & Hospital alongwith senior
faculty members of the Institute and local eminent citizens are the
members. Swasthya Bikash Samittee'' takes all important decisions
from time to time updating the improvement plans of the Institute. |
