Department of Pediatrics

Faculty members:

Photo	Name of the post	Number	Name of staff	Field of interest	Photo
	Professor	1	Dr Hosne Ara Begum,FCPS	Neonatology
	Associate Professor	2	Dr Nazrul Islam FCPS	Infectious disease
				Nutrition
	Assistant Professor	3	Dr Ahmed Murtaza Choudhury FCPS	Pediatric Neurology
			Dr Golam Azam FCPS	Pediatric Hematology
			Dr Suraiya Rahman DCH	Neonatology
	Resident Physician	1	Dr Abdul Khaleque FCPS	Pulmunology
	Registrar	2	Dr Sabina Sultana.DCH, MCPS                   MD(General Pediatrics), MD(pediatric nephrology)	Pediatric Nephrology
			Dr Oliullah ,DCH
	Assistant Registrar	3	Dr Mushfiqur Rahman  MBBS
			Dr Nazrul MBBS
			Dr Subrato MBBS
	Medical Officer	6	Dr Monzurul Ahsan MBBS
			Dr Abdus Salam MBBS
			Dr Abdur Rouf MBBS
			Dr Tofazzal MBBS
			Dr Naznin MBBS
			Dr Naima Sharmin MBBS

Short description:

Department of Pediatrics has both inpatient and outpatient facilities .The inpatient department has three units (I, II, III), situated in ward -2 of main building and ward -25 of MCH building of hospital. Besides the general wards, it has got a Neonatal ward attached to ward -26 and a separate room for tetanus.
Total number of indoor admission averages about 35-40 patients per day and 1000-1200 patients per month.

Facilities:
1. The department is involved in lactation management center (jointly with department of Obs & Gynae) working daily.
2. Immunization centre activities working daily.
3. Follow up clinics
- Child Neurology every Wednesday
- Child Nephrology every Tuesday
- Child Pulmonology every Sunday

4. There is a departmental library which is equipped with recent text books and reference books (basic & clinical)

5. Outpatient service is supervised by one Resident Physician (Pediatrics) along with medical officers. About 5000-6000 children are taking services from OPD per month.

7. Neonatal unit
The neonatal unit (SCNU) has 16 beds with incubator(3incubator) facilities.But we have no ventillator.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
1. Undergraduate teaching : bedside tutorial and lecture classes are taken for 4th & 5th year MBBS students comprising of ward clinics,lecture classes and OPD clinics.

2.Post graduate courses:
--- DCH(Diploma in Child Health) -- No of students : 3
--- MD( Doctor of Medicine) --No of students : 3
Postgraduate training is accepted for FCPS,MCPS,MD

3.Dalily morning session for one hour where last 24 hours clinical events are discussed.

4. Departmental clinical meeting: Journal club is conducted weekly and death review is conducted monthly and clinical seminar monthly.
5. Hospital clinical meeting: Department of pediatrics present cases in clinical seminar two or three times in a year. In this seminar which is conducted every Thursday morning, professors of all the department including principal & director of hospital take active participation.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Current projects:
1)Study of Encephalitis - a multicentre study, jointly done in collaboration with ICDDRB,Dhaka and CDC,Atlanta,USA. Principal investigator: Dr Zahangir Hossein. Co-investigator: Dr Ekhlasur Rahman

2)Clinical profile of tetanus neonatorum and its outcome in medical college hopital. Dr Naznin Akhter,IMO.( accepted for dissertation of FCPS)

3.Complications and short term outcome of low birth weight babies. Dr Tofazzal Hossain Khan, IMO. .( accepted for dissertation of FCPS)

4)Clinical profile and immediate outcome of AGN in children. Dr Subroto Kumar Roy.Assistant Registrar. .

5)CSF finding in first attack of febrile convulsion. Dr Abdus Salam ,IMO. ( accepted for dissertation of FCPS)

6)Risk factors for birth asphyxia in neonates admitted in hospital. Dr Ahmed Murtaza

8)Birth asphyxia- long term outcome. Prof Hosne ara Begum, Dr Ahmed Murtaza

9)Screening of family contact for subclinical post streptococcal glomerulonephrities of admitted post streptococcal glomerulonephrities.Dr. Sabina
Sultana, Prof. Hosne Ara Begum.

Completed projects.

1) Sensitivity,specificity & predictive value of immunochromatography test(ICTil) for diagnosis of kalaazar in children.Dr Abdur Rouf.IMO (accepted for dissertation of FCPS)
2) Sensitivity,specificity & predictive value of aldehyde test for diagnosis of kalaazar in children.Dr Roksana Parvin. (accepted for dissertation of FCPS)

1)   Sensitivity & specificityof chest indrawing in the diagnosis of severe pneumonia.Dr Abdul Hai, Assistant Registrar. (accepted for dissertation of FCPS)

2)   Efficacy & safety of Azithromycin in the treatment of childhood typhoid fever,Dr Nazrul Islam.Assistant Registrar. (accepted for dissertation of FCPS)

       5)Clinical profile of childhood seizure,Dr Utpol Choudhury. Assistant

          Registrar, (accepted for dissertation of FCPS)

6)Hematological profile of chilhood kala azar. Dr Ibrahim Khalil,IMO,   (accepted for dissertation of FCPS)

       8)Epidemiology of kalaazar- a case control study.Dr Rukon Uddin.Assistant

         Registrar. (accepted for dissertation of FCPS)