Department

Professor       :    Prof. Md. Abid Hossain Mollah FCPS, FRCP, DipMED (Head of the department);

                            Prof. Fauzia Mohsin. FCPS (Paediatrics), Head, Unit 3

Professor      :    Dr. Jebun Nahar. DCH, MD (Paediatrics), Head, unit 4;

Asso. Professor  : Dr. Md. Abdul Baki. MD (Neonatology);

                                Dr. Amrita Lal Halder. FCPS (Paediatrics); 

                                Dr. Nasreen Islam.  FCPS (Paediatrics)

Consultant (CDiC)           :    Dr. Bedowra Zabeen. FCPS (Paediatrics)

Assistant Professor        :    Dr. Tasnima Ahmed. FCPS (Paediatrics); Dr. Shareen Khan. FCPS (Paediatrics)

Resident physician         :    Dr. Sabrina Jashim (Paediatrics)

Senior Medical Officer    :    Dr. Bulbul Ahmed (FCPS), Dr. SaminTayeb,Dr. Fahmida Rahman(MPH), Dr. Nahid Sultana

Resident Medical officer :    Dr. Abu Sufion, Dr. Shahreen Shahjahan; Dr. Nawrin Rafia, Dr. Md. Kaisar Mahmud; Dr. Nahida Saberin, Dr. Priya Purkaisthya, Dr. Shahriar

Nurses:

In Neonatal ward                                   :  18

In General ward and OPD                      :  13

Developmental Therapist                     :  01

1. Indoor services

Number of patients admitted (2020 - 2021)

	Green, Purple, Yellow Unit	Blue Unit
Total admission	1718	716
Death	05	58
Mortality rate (%)	0.29	8.1

Invasive procedure done in this Department (All Unit)

Umbilical Catheter                     : 43

Mechanical ventilation   : 35

CPAP ventilation                       : 88

Exchange transfusion                : 13

Lumber puncture                       : 29

Thoracentesis                            : 03

1. Outpatient services

Number of patient attended at paediatric outpatient department   :

1. General out patients department                                                : 3591
2. Endocrinology outpatient department                                           : 5863
3. Diabetic outpatient department                                                   : 5181
4. Child development (CDC) and neurology outpatient department   : 3390
5. Neonatal Follow up clinic                                                           : 1021

1. Academic activities (July 2020-June 2021)

Course	Discipline	Student enrolled
MD	Neonatology (Phase B)	1
FCPS (Training)	Paediatrics	10
Postgraduate training: Students from different postgraduate institute and different discipline		23
Undergraduate		220

1. Research activities

Research Poject - Title: Prevalence of Diabetes and Prediabetes and their associated risk factors among school going children in Bangladesh.

Principle investigator: Prof. Fauzia Mohsin

Publications by the faculty members of the department (national and international)

1. Mahbuba S, Mohsin F, Islam N, Jasim S, Akter S, Mollah MAH. Clinical Presentations of Acquired Hypothyroidism in Children: Experience in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh.  Mymensingh Med J.2022, 31 (4): 1077-1083.
2. Mohsin F, Mahbuba S, Jasim S, Islam N, Nahar J, Akhter S, Mollah MAH, Azad K. Clinical Presentation of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia in Children: Experience in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh. Mymensingh Med J. 2022 Jul;(3):725-732.
3. Khan S, Jolly FA, Baki MA, Nahar J, Mohsin F, Begum T, Nahar N. Niemann Pick disease: A case Report.J Bangldesh Coll Phys Surg 2022;40:209-12.
4. Jasim S, Mohsin F, Islam N, Halder A, Mollah MAH. Etiology of short stature in children and adolescents: experience at a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh. BIRDEM Med J 2022; 12(2):117-123.
5. Bedowra Zabeen, Bulbul Ahmed, Jebun Nahar, Samin Tayyeb, Nasreen Islam, Fauzia Mohsin, Kishwar Azad. Post Ramadan hyperglycaemia was observed in young people with diabetes who fasted safely in Ramadan during the COVID -19 pandemic lockdown of 2020 in Bangladesh. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 186 (2022) 109812.
6. Baki MA, Zabeen B , Islam N, Nahar J, Azad K. Dyslipidaemia Among Bangladeshi Children and Adolescents with Type-1 Diabetes: An Observational Study. BJCH 2021; 45 (2) : 79-82.
7. Atapattu N, Mohsin F, Zabeen B, Seneviratne SN. Pediatric diabetes care in Sri Lanka and Bandladesh: Reaching the community. Pediatric Diabetes 2021; 22(1):112-115. 
8. Zabeen F, Mohsin F, Jesmin E, Mahbuba S, Hassan MQ. Comorbidities in children with Down syndrome: experience in a tertiary care hospital of Bangladesh.BIRDEM Med J 2021; 11(3): 191-196.
9. Nahar J, Begum N, Islam N, Sultana N, Yasmin F, Mohsin F, Begum T. Tramadol intoxication in infants: experience at a tertiary care hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. BIRDEM Med J 2021; 11(3): 197-201.

Department of Neonatology and Paediatrics of BIRDEM General Hospital has over a 26-year history of providing child health care in this country.This department has four units: General Paediatrics, Neonatology, Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism and Paediatric Neurology.

General Paediatrics (Unit 1, Purple)

Patients are admitted with problems such as respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular illnesses, infectious diseases, renal diseases, nutritional problems, haematological diseases, rheumatological problems and others. This unit also provides general OPD and special OPD ((Pulmonology, general paediatrics, rheumatology clinics) services every day. Students of Ibrahim Medical College come for clinical posting in this unit. Post-graduate trainee doctors also come for supervised training in this unit.  This unit is also involved in research work.

Neonatology (Unit 2, Blue)

Neonatology unit of BIRDEM General Hospital is one of the first neonatal intensive care units (NICU) of Bangladesh, providing service for the past 26 years with utmost success. This unit has shown excellence in managing emergency cases of neonatology. This unit currently has 18 incubators/radiant warmers & 9 baby cots. This unit has the most recently functioning machines like ventilators, CPAP machines, LED phototherapy machines, vital sign monitor, Pulse oximeter, ABG machines etc. Doctors in this unit are extremely efficient in their clinical skills like neonatal resuscitation, intubation, water seal drainage, pleural fluid aspiration, exchange transfusion. This unit takes care of not only inborn but also out born neonates. Besides providing clinical services, this unit is also recognized as a post graduate institute for MD neonatology. NICU of BIRDEM stands as an outstanding example in the field of critical care medicine in neonatology and many other NICUs follow it in their services and set up.

Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism (Unit 3, Green)

Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism unit of BIRDEM General Hospital is the leader and pioneer in providing care for children with endocrine and metabolic disorder and diabetes for last 26 years. Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism unit has both indoor and outdoor services. There are 5 fixed beds for this unit. This unit provides indoor services for a large number of children who are requiring hospitalization for endocrine problems such as childhood diabetes, endocrine emergencies like diabetic ketoacidosis, adrenal crisis, hypoglycaemia, hypocalcaemia with convulsion etc. It provides outpatient services every working day for children with various endocrine and metabolic problems and diabetic outpatient service supported by Changing Diabetes in Children (CDiC) and LFAC. This unit is playing important role in teaching and training of postgraduate students and doctors on Paediatric Endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. BCPS introduced FCPS in Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism in 2022 for which main initiative was taken from this unit. BCPS already recognized this unit for training in Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism for first time in our country.

Paediatric Neurology (Unit 4, Yellow)

Paediatric Neurology unit has inpatient and outpatient services. There are 3 fixed beds for Paediatric Neurology unit. Patients with various neurological problems are admitted.  Children with neurological & developmental disorders are seen in Paediatric Neurology Outpatient department and Child Development Centre (CDC) every working day. All high-risk babies (pre-term, low-birth weight babies, perinatal asphyxia, neonatal jaundice, septicaemia) are enlisted for follow up visits in CDC where developmental assessment is done in each visit followed by stimulation and therapy as required. Training program on child development is running in this unit for under graduate students from different colleges as well as Dhaka University.

Number of beds in the department of Paediatrics

Bed	Total
General bed	18
Neonatology	27
Paediatric Endocrinology& Metabolism	05
Paediatric Neurology	03
Fixed cabin at 4th floor	03
Cabin at 6th floor	5-6