St Stephen’s Hospital

Hospital Address

Railway Colony, Tis Hazari, North, Delhi – 110054

State – Delhi

District – North 

Category – Private 

Telephone Landline No.

011 23966021, 011 23966022, 011 23966023

Rates for hospital wards at St. Stephen’s Hospital (Civil Lines)

Departments of hospital

Department of Medicine

The department of medicine is run by an excellent and competent group of doctors including consultants,senior residents,medical officers and dnb trainees..At present it has 9 consultants who have a wide experience in their field and have worked in and have been trained in reputed institutions in India and abroad.The department is organized into 3 units run by separate junior and senior consultants with a separate critical care team for icu.

The total no of beds in the free and general ward category is 150   and in the private wards is 40 .The hospital has a 14 bedded medical icu and a 8 bedded  stepdown icu .The icu has state of the art technology including 24 hr portable echo,xray , ultrasound, dialysis, laboratory and blood bank facilities.The departm ent also has round the clock back up from allied departments like cardiology,endocrinology,gastroenterology,neurology,psychiatry and nephrology.

           Besides infectious diseases,other communicable and non communicable diseases the department also runs certain speciality clinics.The general OPD runs daily from 8.30 am and the private opds run by senior consultants also run daily in the morning and evening.

Speciality Clinic:

HIV Clinic –  with the growing epidemic of hiv this opd which runs on Wednesday at 2.00pm offers quality care to patients with HIV

Rheumatology clinics –this clinic runs on Tuesdays at 2.00pm and provides comprehensive care with advanced laboratory back up from the hospital for diagnosing patients like sle,rheumatoid arthritis,systemic sclerosis etc

Chest and Tb clinic The department has 2 tb clinics on Tuesdays and Fridays at 2.00pm and free medications are given to patients.The Chest clinic is held on Tuesdays at 2.00pm.

Academics-Teaching programme is well coordinated and the department has a post graduate dnb programme for medicine.There are 4 internal medicine candidates each year and 2 family medicine candidates.Daily classes are held with active participation by all members of the department.regular appraisals are held for the candidates and thesis work is monitored regularly.

Department of Cardiology

Department of Cardiology has been set up to give specialized treatment to patients with heart diseases like coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease and cardiomyopathies. The department has a well equipped Coronary Care Unit to manage critically ill patients.

The Non Invasive diagnostic laboratory has one of the latest generation of 2D Colour Doppler Echocardiography from Vingmed. This has facilities for Multiplane Transesophageal Echo and Computerised Stress Echo. The Treadmill is a time tested workhorse from Quinton, giving excellent service since its installation.

The department has a HICOR Digital Cardiac Catheterisation System from Siemens. This is the latest generation system which is fully digitalised with all the accessories for performing routine diagnostic as well as advanced therapeutic interventions like Balloon Angioplasty of Coronary Arteries, Balloon Dilatation of stenosed mitral and pulmonary valves.

The cardiology team is led by Dr. Mohan Nair MD, DM (Cardiology), who has had extensive experience in invasive cardiology. The team also includes specially trained dedicated doctors, nurses and technicians.

The department promises to give quality care to people of all classes. Due care has been taken to have provisions for making these advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to be available within the reach of economically weaker sections.

• Facilities Available

• Coronary Angiography

• Balloon Valvuloplasty

• Percutaneous Topographic Coronary Angiography

• Electro Physiology Study

Department of Anaesthesia

The Department of Anaesthesiology caters to all specialities like General Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Family Welfare, ENT, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery, Neuro Surgery, Rehabilitation Medicine, Urology and Cardiothoracic Surgery. Since 1992 the department has been specially equipped to give anaesthesia for all types of open heart surgeries. Since the department caters to a large portion of polio, spastic and spinal cord injury patients, most of the cases are done under regional blocks as they need multiple surgical procedures. The department also renders services to Radiology, CT Scan and Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory whenever needed. Painless Labour and Post Operative Analgesia are available in the hospital.

The department is recognised for post graduate training in Anaesthesia, presenting two candidates a year for D.N.B Examination. The department also runs training programmes for operation theatre assistants with yearly admission of 4 candidates. 

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

St. Stephen’s Hospital has a full-fledged Cardiothoracic Unit which undertakes Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic Surgeries both in adult and children. Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, including arterial revascularisation using internal mammary artery, is required in triple vessel disease, critical left main lesions and other coronary artery blockages not amenable to balloon angioplasty. Cardio pulmonary Bypass using Sarns heart lung machine, use of bubble and membrane oxygenerators, attention to myocardial protection using Blood Cardioplegia and disposable delivery systems, have enabled better results in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery are available in the Cardiac Operating Room. This is the first centre in North India to start using Chitra Prosthetic Heart Valves.

A well equipped 4 bedded post operative Cardiothoracic Surgery Intensive Care Unit has the latest Volume Ventilators, Multichannel Monitors, Pulse Oxymeters, Infusion Syringes and pumps. Support for post operative low cardiac output state is possible with a sophisticated Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) from ‘Datascope’. The IABP is also useful for patients needing urgent surgery after angioplasty. We also have a 4 bedded step-down ICU.

Surgery for rheumatic heart disease patients is still an urgent need in this country and many of these patients require valve repairs or valve replacements. Newer heart valve prostheses are available for use in patients requiring valve replacements. Some of these patients require cardiac surgery either open or closed. Congenital heart defects corrections such as Arterial Septal Defect, Ventricular Septal Defect, Tetralogy of Fallots Shunt Surgery, Closure of persistent Ductus Arteriosus, Coarctation Surgery are all routinely undertaken. Excision or grafting of Aortic aneurysms and bypasses for Aortoiliac obstruction are routinely done with newer prosthetic grafts.

Over 500 cardiac operations have already been done successfully. This includes coronary artery bypass grafts, valve repairs and replacements, difficult congenital heart repairs, aneurysm resections with excellent results.

The charges are made as a package deal for coronary artery bypass graft and  other open heart operations. These are some of the most economical rates in the country.

• Facilities Available

• Open Heart Surgery

• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

• PDA/ASD Closure 

Department of Dental & Maxillofacial Surgery

The department is an integral part of St. Stephens Hospital since decades. It caters to a fairly large population seeking dental & oral surgical treatment. It has both inpatients & outpatients referrals/consultations are taken through OPD & casualty department. Besides providing the usual scope of dental services, the department provides specialty treatment for Orthodontics & oral maxillofacial surgery. Prosthetic rehabilitation with dental implants is also provided.

The departments motto is to provide an ethically based, patient oriented, scientifically proven, compassion driven comprehensive oral care.

Facilities/ services available

Dental Procedures

• Dental examinations and radiographs

• Tooth colored restorations

• All ceramic crowns & bridges

• Root canal treatment

• Dental extractions

• Pit & fissure sealants and preventive fluoride application for children

• Dental bleaching

• Oral prophylaxis (scaling & polishing)

• Complete & partial dentures

Orthodontic Services

• Facial analysis & facial/ jaw deformity treatment planning.

• Orthodontic correction of crooked/ crowded teeth

• Growth (jaws/face) modification with myofunctional appliances

• Pre-surgical orthodontics (prelude to jaw surgery)

• Interceptive orthodontics

Oral & Maxillofacial Services

• Oral cancer management

• Jaw Reconstructions

• Facial/ jaw deformity corrective surgery

• Surgery for jaw tumors & cysts

• Distraction osteogenesis for sleep apnea & congenital deformity correction

• Third molar surgery

• Dental implants

• Advanced implantology procedures like bone grafting, direct & indirect sinus lifts

• Pre-prosthetic & other minor oral surgeries

• Medical & surgical management of facial pains

• TMJ surgeries

• Facial & jaw trauma surgeries

• Surgery for salivary gland disorders, calculi (stones) & tumors

Department of ENT

Department provides advanced elective and emergency care to a wide variety of diseases of the Ear, Nose, Throat and Head & Neck region. The routine surgical procedures include micro earsurgeries like tympanoplasty , stapedectomy ,mastoidectomies, facial nerve decompression, microlaryngeal surgeries and tracheal reconstructions. A wide variety of Head & Neck surgeries and oncosurgeries are also done routinely. Conventional Endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) and extended FESS including skull base procedures ( in collaboration with Dept of Neurosurgery) are being done regularly.

Surgical Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

Since 2013 , department has a vibrant sleep surgery programme, for the management of obstructive sleep apnoea.State of art sleep laboratory is available in the hospital.Facilities for sleep endoscopy , multilevel sleep surgery and minimally invasive procedures are available . Under a specially trained surgical team, latest surgical procedures like tongue base reduction and pharyngoplasties including barbed suturing techniques are carried out on a regular basis with excellent results.With the surgical treatment we have managed to releive the airway obstruction without the help of machines.In many patients where the patient is not able to tolerate CPAP therapy or is not releved by it , multilevel sleep surgery offers good results. The Department is accredited by the National Board of Examinations and runs a post graduate DNB programme in Otorhinolaryngology . 

Department of Laboratory

The department is divided into the following sections.

• Biochemistry

• Haematology

• Histopathology and Cytology

• Microbiology

• Serology with special Immunology

• Blood Bank

Biochemistry

In addition to the routine biochemical tests, there are facilities for Enzymes (Cardiac, Hepatic and Pancreatic), Hormones (HCG Levels, t3 t4 TSH, FSH and LH) and special chemistry (Prostatic acid phosphates and Glycosated Haemoglobin). The working of the department is regularly monitored by external and internal quality control.

Heamatology Services Available:

• Complete blood count and blood picture review by haematologist.

• Reticulocyte Count

• Bone Marrow Examination

• Coagulation Studies – Production Time, Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time, Thrombin Time, FDP, Bleeding Time.

• Complete coagulation workup for bleeding disorders including assay of factors (F, VIII, IX, X, XI, VII, V etc.)

• Control of oral coagulation PT/INR

• Investigations of haemolytic anaemia

Histopathology & Cytology

Investigations available in the department of Histopathology.

1. Routine histopathology – diagnostic

Out side biopsies are accepted. Mission hospital specimens are done at concessional rates as decided by hospital administration.

2. The following immunohistochemistry test are available

• Panacytokeratin

• LCA

• S-100

• Vimentin

ER, PR, HER2/ neu
CD3
CD20
Ki67
NSE (Neuron Specific Enolase)

3. Immunoflurescence for renal biopsies-IgG, IgM, IgA, C1q, C3c and Fibrinogen

4. Intra operative diagnosis using – frozen section, microwave processing, crush smear and imprint preparations.

5. Pap Smears.

6. Body fluids -for malignant cytology

7. FNAC-Procedure and reporting.

The department is part of the DNB Programme with two seats per year.
Microbiology
Routine checkups of Blood, Stool, Urine, Body Fluids.
Serology
In addition to routine serology, the special serology test done are  TB-ELISA, H-Pylori, Amoebiasis, HIV and TOXOPLASMA.

Department of Surgery

The department of  surgery has been rendering commendable service to the patients residing in North Delhi, particularly since the General Hospital was commissioned in 1976.

There are four large operation theatres, well designed and equipped with most modern operating tables, lighting systems, high speed autoclave, Ethylene Oxide Sterilisation Unit, Fibreoptic Endoscopes (Bronchoscope, Oesophagoscope, Gastroscope, Cytoscope and Resectoscope for Transurethral resections of prostate), an operating microscope, an Image Intensifier Unit, Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Equipment and many other equipment.

Post Operative Intensive Care Unit

There is an 8 bedded post operative intensive care unit  for surgical patients. The ICU is equipped with piped oxygen, suction and compressed air. There are ventilators, pulse oxymeters and cardiac monitoring equipment exclusively for the surgical patients.

Academic Engagements

The department is recognised for 1st year junior residency by the Indian Medical Council and the Delhi University. There are 8 house surgeons working in the department at a time. It is also recognised for training candidates for the Diplomate of the National Board Examination. Two candidates are selected for training each year.

Laparoscopic Surgery

The department has the facility to perform Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. This   method of removing gall bladder is relatively new and has the advantage of requiring very small incisions resulting in faster patient recovery as well as being much less painful than the conventional procedure. The patient stay in the hospital will be shortened considerably  and post operative complications are fewer. Besides Cholecystectomy there are other applications for Hernia repair and Appendectomy.

The department is headed by Dr. Sudhir Joseph MS (Surg.) who is also the Director of the Hospital. 

Department of Gynae

St. Stephen’s Hospital for women, the maternity hospital in Delhi was started as a small 50 bedded hospital at Chandni Chowk in the year 1885 in memory of Mrs. Priscilla Winter, an English missionary. The hospital was shifted to its present site at Tis Hazari in 1909. The relocation of the department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology with neonatology services in the present Mother and Child Block was done in 1994.

The Obstetrics & Gynaecology department is one of the busiest tertiary maternity centre in the city and the number of deleveries exceeds 7000 per year. A large number of these patients are underprivileged and have limited resources to avail of quality health care which is beyond the reach of a common man. Many of the referred cases are complicated high risk pregnancies and the department is well equipped to handle such cases along with the neonatal intensive care unit attached to the department.

Gynaecology clinics are conducted every day except Sundays by the senior residents and consultants. Facilities for special consultations are available every day morning and evening. There is an Antenatal clinic in the hospital for pregnant women which are conducted every day except Sundays. Special high risk pregnancy clinics are held once a week by medical specialists.

Clinic Facilities

• Daily general antenatal clinics

• Special high risk clinics running weekly to cater to highly complicated pregnancies.

• Specialists’ clinic (Pvt OPD) available daily morning and evening.

• Daily Clinics attending to gynaecological problems.

• Weekly HRT Clinics to focus on problems of post menopausal women.

• Round the clock emergency services to attend to any obstetric or gynaecological emergency.

Labour and Delivery

• Well Staffed and fully equipped labour room with facilities of electonic fetal heart monitoring during labour.

• Facility of painless delivery using epidural analgesia.

• Excellent neonatal care back up with fully equipped neonatal intensive care unit.

Gynaec. Surgery Facilities

• Fully equipped operation theatres.

• All major and minor gynaecological surgeries.

• Laparoscopic and hysteroscopy gynaecological surgeries.

• Facility of thermal ablation.

• Excellent post op care and ICU back up.

• 24hrs supporting blood bank facility with availability of blood and blood components.

Facilities available at the centre.

1. Basic and advanced infertility investigations of infertility couple

• Hysteroscopy, Laparoscopy

• Hormonal Assays

• Follicular Studies

• IUI-Intrauterine insemination

• IVF-In Vitro Fertilization

• ICSI-Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection

• Sperm and Embryo Freezing.
  

2. Foetal Studies

• Foetal Unltrasound Scanning Basi, Level II, Foetal Echo and dopplar

• Amniocentesis, CVS

3.  Gynecological Scanning, Ultrasound Guided Cyst Aspirations

Gynaecology Oncology Services

Pap’s smear facilities and colposcopic procedures which help in the early detection of genital tract malignancies.

Family Welfare Programmes

• Free tubal ligations including laparoscopic ligations.

• Vasectomics – no scalpel, no stitch technique.

• Insertion of IUCDs and Other contraceptive advice

Community Outreach Programme

Conducting regular antenatal and gynae clinics at community health centre.

Academics

The department is recognised by Delhi University to train 2 candidates every year for DGO and 5 candidates for the DNB Examination  of the National Board.

Eye Care Services

The department of Ophthalmology, St Stephen’s hospital, was conceived with the need to provide service to those with impairment of sight and attempt to restore what perhaps is the most valuable of all the senses, that which provides meaning and worth to all that is beautiful and true

Designed to provide comprehensive eye care under one roof, the services range from primary level community based rehabilitation services to state of art tertiary level care. The department functions as distinct sub-specialty services to enable optimal day-to-day functioning even as every endeavor is made to scale and master professional heights of excellence.

Cataract Services : From being the first centre to have intraocular lens implantation, the commitment to provide large scale quality services to the needy continued with continual adoption of newer techniques of cataract extraction, some being developed entirely in-house. Today, intraocular lens implantation is provided universally to all patients. It remains one of the few centres to offer sutureless cataract surgery to nearly all patients as also topical anaesthesia surgery to a majority. Incision sizes have constantly been decreasing from 9mm of the conventional surgery and 3.0mm of phacoemulsification to the newer 1.5mm and sub-millimeter techniques.

• Glaucoma Services : The department has a very dynamic glaucoma unit with a wide range of surgical and conventional management protocols. Pathologies from congenital glaucoma to acquired primary and secondary glaucomas are dealt with. Routine trabeculectomy has evolved to safer and more effective techniques of deep sclerostomy, trabeculectomy with adjuncts; seton procedures, to name a few. The department can boast of being one the very few centres where in-house setons are fashioned and used. Research into newer drugs and less invasive techniques of glaucoma management remains a major thrust area.

• Cornea Services : As a partner of the Edward Maumenee Eye Bank in the Hospital Corneal retrieval programme, the hospital underlines its policy of service to the suffering by providing hope to the large number of corneal blind who wait for larg-hearted donors to leave them tissues after death.

• Vitreo – Retinal Services : The department has recently acquired a digital fundus examination system and a green photocoagulating laser which expands its activities in this all important area. Laser and interventional vitreous surgeries are routinely conducted as required. In order to provide the best, the activity is coordinated with other departments, particularly for the management of multi-system disorders such as diabetes.

• Paediatric Ophthalmology Services : Specialised eye care for children has been a major activity of the department with support from a well established paediatric department. Our services range from monitoring visual development in children with systemic compromise to interventional therapy for strabismus, childhood cataract, glaucoma, neurovisual disorders, keratoplasty as also low visual aids for children.

• Oculoplastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery : Structural disorders of the lid, lacrimal apparatus and the orbit are treated with special emphasis on the restoration of function. Cosmetic and aesthetic procedures in and around the eye such as blepharoplasty, lid reconstruction, scar revisions, removal of wrinkles and dark circles are also undertaken using conventional surgical techniques as well newer modalities such as botulinium toxin injections and resurfacing procedures.

• Neuro – Ophthalmology : The department provides management facilities for optic nerve disorders such as traumatic optic neuropathy, optic nerve vascular disorders, optic nerve pathologies associated with central nervous system disorders such as intracranial tumours and raised intracranial pressure due to other causes. In addition, the unit provides help to those with ocular motility disorders such as nystagmus, restrictive and neuroparalytic stramismus, facial nerve palsy, blepharospasm, hemifacial spasm using both conventional interventional modalities as well as chemodenervation.

• Visual Rehabilitation Unit : The problem of low vision in the community and the means to alleviate resultant practical problems remains an important one. In order to address this, the department is working on a holistic visual rehabilitation unit encompassing the following:

  • Visual development assessment : in order to monitor the development of visual functions particularly in children with systemic compromise.

  • Neurovisual rehabilitation : for patients with visual compromise following strokes, head injury, central nervous system tumours.

  • Low vision aids : For patients with a decreased vision due to any cause, special appliances and lenses may be provided to attempt to restore function to near optimal levels. These are largely made in the department itself according to the visual requirements of the patient.

• Community Ophthalmology Services : Community ophthalmology services form the backbone of all activities of the department reflecting the hospital’s philosophy of service. The activities include:

• Community based rehabilitation : This is aimed at providing rehabilitative services at the doorstep so as to enable the planning of need-based individualized service as well as maximal utilization.

• Camps: Indoor and outdoor camps are organized at regular intervals wherein surgery and treatment as may be required is provided free of cost.

• lind school visits : The adoption of a blind school to provide eye care as may be required to all its resident students as well as to attempt visual rehabilitation at the school itself.

• Surveys : Routine data collection from the community is done to assess the actual felt needs and plan future intervention at the community level. This also helps in building rapport with the local population where health care is being delivered.

• School health programme : In association with the community medicine department to assess and provide health care to the young at an appropriate age and at an easily accessible place.

Department of Orthopaedics

The hospital has a well-equipped and well staffed Orthopaedics department which can provide treatment for any emergency or non-emergency disorder of bones, muscles and joints.

The hospital provides 24 hours fracture services. Registrars and consultants are available on call to handle any emergency, including open fractures, vascular injuries of the limbs and multi system injuries.

The paediatric wing of the department is one of the most active paediatric orthopaedic units in the city and provides care for patients with paralytic poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy, congenial and other acquired disorders including club foot, radial club hand, pseudarthrosis, scoliosis, Sprengels’ shoulder etc.

Lucque and Harrington instrumentation for spine and Ilizarov ring fixation procedure (for limb length equalisation, non union and deformity correction) and Jess fixation are routinely performed. The hospital has also arrangements to provide orthotic and prosthotic support services through ALIMCO and other schemes. A well equipped Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Department and a full fledged Rehabilitation Department work in close association. Partial and total joint replacements are routinely performed at very economical rates.

The operating room is equipped with an Image Intensifier Television Flouroscope, Arthroscope, pneumatic and electrical powered instruments and several other equipment which are essential for orthopaedic procedure.

A super specialised anesthesia team and support from other super speicialty services such as Cardio Thoracic Surgery, Plastic and Neurosurgery make the care of multiple-system-injured patient possible.

Department of paediatrics

Child care has always been an area of major concern and therefore an integral part of the services offered by St. Stephen’s Hospital since its inception. The department has   a team of dedicated and qualified staff comprising of five full time paediatric consultants, Thirteen residents and specially trained nursing personnel. The department besides  taking care of over 7000 babies born in this hospital every year also runs a full fledged paediatric ward and out patient service. 

Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has the latest equipments that are required to deliver efficient tertiary care to the neonates including ventilators, incubators, open care systems, neonatal ultrasound machine, cardio-respiratory and blood pressure monitors, infusion pumps, pulse oxymeters and phototherapy units.

The OPD Services include daily general and private OPDs, Special Clinics, Well Baby Clinics . Preventive paediatrics is an integral part of our OPD Services through our Well Baby Clinics and immunisation in post natal wards. 

Our paediatric department is a referral centre for tertiary care of sick children from North Delhi and nearby colonies and villages. Special paediatric clinics are held at Nandnagri Community Centre.

In the paediatric ward specialised and intensive care is provided to sick babies. The paediatric ward has 49 beds and a 6 bed Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The PICU is manned round the clock by postgraduate residents. It has 2 ventilator cots. There is a provision of free beds both on children’s ward and the neonatal nursery for the indigent. 

The department provides health care for about 120 orphans with the Missionaries of Charity under the supervision of Dr. R Beri. A project to provide play therapy for these children won the Sir James Flett Gold Medal of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics.

The five full time paediatric consultants, all have general interests. Dr. Beri also has special interest in Paediatric Nephrology, Dr. Nirmal Kumar in Paediatric Neurology and Dr. Saroj Singh in Paediatric Pulmonology. Dr. J Puliyel looks after  paediatric diabetis and behavioral disorders. Full middle grade cover is provided by 8 Post Graduate Senior Registrars. There are 5 Senior House Officers (SHO) who are Diplomate of National Board (DNB) trainees. SHOs in the last six months of their training take duties on the registrar rota. 

At present we have one Research Fellow Post funded by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India.

The nursing services are led by Sister A. Isaac Anora and Sr. Rose Mary.

• DNB Training

We take 2 SHOs each year for the 3 year DNB training programme. Candidates must have passed part I of the DNB to qualify. As per hospital policy,  preference is given to Christian doctors and those sponsored by Christian mission hospitals. Dedicated teaching time has a schedule for Journal Club Meetings, Seminars, Presentations, Weekly Quiz and Monthly Tests. Postings with the Community Health Department and with specialties like ENT and Ophthalmology and Dermatology are arranged. We also register  two DCH Registrars each year for the 2 year DNB training.

• PGDMCH Training

The department is a  Skill Development Centre for the Post Graduate Diploma in Maternal and Child Health (PGDMCH) and Dr. J Puliyel is Academic Counsellor to the Indira Gandhi National Open University.

• Research

The Paediatric Department has received external research funding for the following projects.

• Impact of pollution related haze on vitamin D metabolites in socially disadvantaged children. The study is being done in collaboration with Dr. Pramod Upadhyaya at the Centre for Science Education and Communication and funded by  Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.

• Development of a simple regime of play and to assess the impact of this as growth and development of institutionalised children in an orphanage setting. Funding for this comes from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

• Studies of the effect of pollution on cardio respirator function in children, funded by Tulika Public Services, a NGO working among school children in campaign against pollution.

• Publications

• Repeated Unifocal Seizure in post neonatal infants with hypocalcenoma, Indian Paediatric 2000, 37:203-5

• Acute pancreatitis with Cholestatic Hepatitis, An unusual manifestation of hepatitis, Annals of Tropical Paediatrics 1999, 19, 391-4

• Melas Syndrome, Indian Journal of Paediatrics 1999, 66, 621-5

• A Study of Current Trends in Enteric Fever, Journal of Communicable Diseases 1999, 30, 171-4

• Evaluation of Leucocyte Eastrogen Reagent for rapid diagnosis of Pyogenic Meningitis, Indian Paediatrics 1999, 36, 455-6

• Sudden onset profound deafness in association with anti phospho lipid antibodies in a child with SLE, Indian Paediatrics 2000, 37, 1274-6

• Drawing on adult learning theory to teach personal and professional values, Medical Teacher 1999, 21, 513-5

• Comments on Congenital Methemoglobinemia, Indian Journal of Paediatrics 2000, 67, 782

• Gall bladder wall odema  in serology proven paediatric dengue haemorrage fever, A useful diagnostic finding that may help in prognostication, Journal of Tropical Paediatrics 1999, 46, 176-7

• Should Immunisation against hepatitis B take priority over provision of clean drinking water, British Medical Journal, 1999, 319, 188

• Universal Immunisation with Hepatitis B Vaccine. What it will cost, Indian Paediatrics 2000, 37, 107

• Newer Vaccines: like Marie Antianette said “Let the poor eat cake”, Indian Paediatrics 1998, 35, 1245

• Issue and Controversies in contemporary immunisation In Recent Advances in Paediatrics, Volume 10, Editor, Suraj Gupta.

• Newer Vaccines – To vaccinate or not to vaccinate is the question : Ethical and Medico-legal issues. Indian Paediatrics 1988, 35, 791

• A simple strategy to improve first breath oxygen delevery by amubag, Resuscitation 2000, 45; 221-224.

Department of Psychiatry

Psychiatry is a medical speciality devoted to the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of mental disorders. The common mental disorders are Depression, Mania, Schizophrenia, Anxiety, Phobia, OCD, Substance Abuse/ Addiction, Sleep Disorders, Autism, ADHD etc.

A comprehensive psychiatric evaluation includes detailed history taking, mental status examination, relevant investigations and psychological assessment. The treatment of psychiatric illnesses is broadly classified into Pharmacological (Medicines) & Non-Pharmacological.

The Department of Psychiatry of St. Stephens Hospital, Tis Hazari has a dynamic, well qualified team of Psychiatrists, Psychologist and Psychiatric social worker providing services round the clock. It runs daily OPD, both for private and general patients catering to all types of psychiatric and psychological disorders. An IPD of 15 beds is provided for patients who require admission and monitoring. We also provide 24 hours Psychiatric emergency services.

Special Facilities :

– 24 Hours Psychiatry Emergency Services

– Daily General & Private OPD

– All Psychological tests & Services

– Anger Management, Stress Management, Couple Therapy, Family Therapy

Department of Urology and Renal Transplant

St Stephens Hospital offers comprehensive round the clock specialized Urology services.  

The Outpatient Department runs on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Saturday OPD’s are on prior appointment. The Operation Theatre days are Monday, Thursdays and Saturdays. Emergency services are available round the clock.

The Department covers the following subspecialties: Endo Urology, Laparoscopic Urology, Reconstructive Urology, Andrology, Female Urology, Uro-Oncology, Urodynamics, Vascular Access Surgery and Renal Transplant. Urological Diseases treated include; Prostate enlargement, urinary stones, stress incontinence, urinary infections, stricture urethra, renal failure, cancer of the genitourinary tract and erectile dysfunction etc.

The Operation Theatre is equipped with Fluoroscopic C-Arm as well as entire armamentarium for Lower and Upper Tract Endourology including 3 chip Endo camera.

There is a dedicated fully equipped Renal Transplant OT which is attached to the Transplant ICU

The Department is run by 3 Consultants; Dr Alok K Jha, Dr Shitij Bali and Dr Pankaj Wadhwa. 2 Junior Residents from the General Surgery DNB Programme are also attached to the department.  The Department has 2 visiting Consultants for the Renal Transplant Programme namely Dr Bejoy Abraham and Dr Raj K Chaudhary. Mr Shyam Narain looks after the Urodynamics Lab.

Doctors in St Stephens Hospital

Service of hospital

• ALC (Artificial Limb Centre)

• Dialysis

• blood bank

• Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory

• Dietary

• Pharmacy

• Physiotherapy

• Urology Lab

• Free parking

• Canteen

• Thalassemia

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