Department of Pediatrics, Government Thiruvarur Medical College caters a great chunk of the needy sick children of Delta districts of Tamilnadu and also the border zone from karaikal. The department consists of Pediatric intensive care unit, Pediatric Resuscitation and Emergency Management unit, General Paediatric wards, a well equipped Neonatology unit and DEIC (DISTRICT EARLY INTERVENTION CENTRE) unit.
The 12 bedded Pediatric intensive care unit is modernized and has got advanced equipments with centralized monitoring system and telemedicine connectivity to state HHDU unit including ventilators and HFNC.also provison for peritoneal dialysis
General Paediatric wards consist of 2 units and have a capacity of 40 beds each with facility for isolation wards and Outbreak wards. PREM -pediatric Resuscitation and emergency management unit, which is one the pillar of TAEI, takes care of the critically ill child refered to our institution.
Neonatology Unit is now spacious and expanded in a big way and functioning in the CEMONC building with 14 ICU beds and 16 Level2 beds and 10 level 1 beds and takes care of the referrals as well.
The academic activities of our department have reached the next level milestone in having got 3 MD postgraduates per year in addition to undergraduates. Also the department is conducting gold medal exam for UG MBBS students from 2024 onwards.
The Department also conducted a CME on PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY by an eminent National Speaker Dr.Hemchand K Prasad on 16 june 2023 made it a grand success with highly informative academic feast for varied audiences including UG,PG and Practioners. Another CME was also conducted along with IAP on DIAGNOSTIC STEWARDSHIP on 8 May 2024 and it was honoured by a big crowd of more than 100 registrations.
The department also celebrates important national days like World Breastfeeding week celebrations, World child Health day, World hemophilia day, National Nutrition week, National newborn week, World Down syndrome day.
FACULTY PROFORMA
| S.No | Name of the Faculty | Present Designation | Date of Joining in the institution with designation | Total Teaching experience as on 31-12-2024 | No of research Publications | |
| National | International | |||||
| 1 | DR.D.KUMARAGURU | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | 5/1/2018 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | 10 YEARS | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | DR.R.RAGUVARAN | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | 1/8/2016 JUNIOR RESIDENT | 8 YRS 5 MONTHS | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | DR.P.RAJAVIJAYAKRISHNAN | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | 10/12/2020 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | 12 YRS 8 MONTHS | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | DR.G.SANTHOSH | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | 25/06/2017 SENIOR RESIDENT | 7 YRS 5 MONTHS | 2 | |
| 5 | DR.R.MOHAMED NAZAR | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | 13/06/2020 SENIOR RESIDENT | 4 YRS 4 MONTHS | 1 | |
| REVATHI M | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | 21/06/2022 SENIOR RESIDENT | 2 YRS 6 MONTHS | |||
| 6 | ARAVINTH V K | SENIOR RESIDENT | 23/08/2023 SENIOR RESIDENT | 1Year 4months | – | 0 |
| 7 | MUTHULAKSHMI N | SENIOR RESIDENT | 26/10/2023 SENIOR RESIDENT | 1year 2months | – | – |
| 8 | MOHANA PRIYA G | SENIOR RESIDENT | 23/08/2023 SENIOR RESIDENT | 1year 4months | – | – |
| 9 | SAKTHIMARIESWARI | SENIOR RESIDENT | 23/08/2023 SENIOR RESIDENT | 1 year 4 months | ||
Research Publications
| S.No | Name of the Faculty | Present Designation | Title of the paper | Journal Name | Volume No/issue no | Year Published | Indexed on | National /International | Authorship(First or Second or etc) |
| 1 | DR.D.KUMARAGURU | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | PREVALENCE OF NUTRITIONAL ANEMIA AMONG CHILDREN AGED 6 TO 59 MONTHS ATTENDING PAEDIATRIC OPD IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC MEDICINE AND PHARMACY | VOL NO 5 / ISSUE 3 | 2023 | EMBASE | INTERNATIONAL | SECOND |
| MULTISYSTEM INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME IN CHILDREN ASSOCIATED WITH 2019 NOVEL CORONAVIRUS INFECTION IN INDIA | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC MEDICINE AND PHARMACY | VOL NO 5 / ISSUE 3 | 2023 | EMBASE | INTERNATIONAL | FIRST | |||
| 2 | DR.R.RAGUVARAN | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | TO DETERMINE THE EFFICACY OF INTERMITTEN T VS CONTINUOS PHOTOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF NEONATAL HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA IN TERM NEONATES | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH | VOL NO 9/ ISSUE 6 | 2020 | EMBASE | INTERNATIONAL | CORRESPONDING |
| PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE ASSESSMENT AN EARLY PREDICTOR FOR ASTHMAIN CHILDREN WITH ALLERGIC RHINITIS | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH | VOL NO 6/ ISSUE 7 | 2020 | EMBASE | INTERNATIONAL | CORRESPONDING | |||
| 3 | DR.P.RAJAVIJAYAKRISHNAN | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | MULTISYSTEM INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME IN CHILDREN ASSOCIATED WITH 2019 NOVEL CORONAVIRUS INFECTION IN INDIA | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC MEDICINE AND PHARMACY | VOL NO 5 / ISSUE 3 | 2023 | EMBASE | INTERNATIONAL | FIRST |
| PREVALENCE OF NUTRITIONAL ANEMIA AMONG CHILDREN AGED 6 TO 59 MONTHS ATTENDING PAEDIATRIC OPD IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC MEDICINE AND PHARMACY | VOL NO 5 / ISSUE 3 | 2023 | EMBASE | INTERNATIONAL | SECOND | |||
| 4 | DR.G.SANTHOSH | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | MULTISYSTEM INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME IN CHILDREN ASSOCIATED WITH 2019 NOVEL CORONAVIRUS INFECTION IN INDIA | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC MEDICINE AND PHARMACY | VOL NO 5 / ISSUE 3 | 2023 | EMBASE | INTERNATIONAL | CORRESPONDING |
| PREVALENCE AND DETERMINANTS OF EXCLUSIVE BREAST FEEDING FOR FIRST SIX MONTHS OF LIFE IN INFANTS ATTENDING PEDIATRIC OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC MEDICINE AND PHARMACY | VOL NO 6 / ISSUE 6 | 2024 | EMBASE | INTERNATIONAL | FIRST | |||
| 5 | DR.R.MOHAMED NAZAR | ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | PREVALENCE AND DETERMINANTS OF EXCLUSIVE BREAST FEEDING FOR FIRST SIX MONTHS OF LIFE IN INFANTS ATTENDING PEDIATRIC OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC MEDICINE AND PHARMACY | VOL NO 6 / ISSUE 6 | 2024 | EMBASE | INTERNATIONAL | THIRD |