Pediatrics

The Department of Pediatrics at Dar Al Shifa Hospital offers comprehensive healthcare services for children from new born onwards in a child-friendly ambience. A highly skilled team consists of specialized and super-specialized physicians and skilled nurses who strive to provide exemplary and patient-and family-centered care and stand as leaders in pediatric specialty.

Scope of Services:  

• General Pediatric: It provides full spectrum of services for pediatrics on both inpatient and outpatient basis for routine as well as complex diseases such as common flu, asthma, gastroenteritis, and throat and ear infections. In addition, it offers routine health checkup throughout various stages of growth and development.
• Pediatric gastroenterology: This sub-specialty deals with diagnosis and management of a full spectrum of gastrointestinal disorders. Endoscopies and colonoscopies are performed to manage different cases such as foreign body removal (coin and fish bone), biopsies, polyp removal, PEG tube insertion and replacement. In addition, special program for obesity management is offered in coordination with clinical nutritionists.
• Pediatric neurology: It deals with diagnosing and managing inborn and acquired disorders of central and peripheral nervous system in childhood such as cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy and epilepsy.
• Pediatric Allergy & immunology: The subspecialty offers the opportunity to work with patients with common diseases such as allergic rhinitis, asthma, atopic dermatitis, and immune-mediated food hypersensitivities. The field of immunology provides opportunities to work with patients with potentially life-threatening congenital and acquired disorders of the immune system,.
• Pediatric diabetes & endocrinology: Effectively manages endocrine disorders in children and adolescents including diabetes, insulin pump program, continuous blood glucose monitoring {CBGM] ,  growth abnormalities and obesity, thyroid and adrenal disorders.
• Pediatric cardiology: This sub-specialty concerns with diagnosing and treating congenital and acquired cardiac abnormalities including arrhythmias, lesions in the heart, and pulmonary hypertension

Additional Services provided by other Specialties:

• Pediatric orthopedics: Specialized in diagnosis and management of congenital, developmental and acquired musculoskeletal conditions in babies and children such as clubfoot, fracture, limb and spine deformities, and developmental dysplasia of hip.
• Pediatric ophthalmology: It offers medical and surgical treatment of a range of eye disorders in children such as eye infection, refractory errors, squint, and blocked duct.
• Pediatric surgery: It offers an array of surgical interventions such as toenail excision, tongue tie release, circumcision, hernia repair, tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy and Ventriculoperitoneal (V-P) shunting

Programs:

• Well-Baby Program: As parents, nothing is more important than taking care of your child's health and ensuring their proper growth, Dar Al Shifa Hospital Well baby program including regular monthly visits of babies during the first 6 months of life to the well-baby clinic for follow up of general health, nutrition, growth and development.
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• we are adopting people centered care paradigm (we are partner with parents and family to provide the best care to their loved one)