K.C. Chaudhuri
FounderFounder of Institute of Child Health, Kolkata
K.C. Chaudhuri is the founder of Institute of Child Health, Kolkata (1956)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare and women & children from Kolkata.
Institute of Child Health, Kolkata
The Institute of Child Health, Kolkata, is a charitable paediatric hospital in the Park Circus area, formally opened in January 1957 after being founded the previous year. It provides medical and surgical services to children, with a large share of underprivileged patients, and runs postgraduate paediatric training including MD and DNB seats. The Institute publishes monthly activity reports on its website.
Institute of Child Health, Kolkata reports the following, on its own site:
- The Institute's Paediatric Intensive Care Unit is a tertiary-level critical care facility with a current capacity of 14 beds, comprising 4 isolation beds, 4 general PICU beds and 6 step-down beds.
- The Institute's paediatric nephrology department reports a clinical load over the last one year of 2,427 in-patient admissions at 95.6% bed occupancy, 2,026 haemodialysis sessions, 101 SLED sessions, 81 kidney biopsies and 3 kidney transplants.
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Kolkata
- Founded
- 1956
- Press
- 4
References
- [1] “The Institute of Child Health was set up by Dr K.C. Chaudhuri, the doyen of Indian pediatrics, in Kolkata in 1956.” — Institute of Child Health, Kolkata. Source
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