About Department
Department of Maternal and Reproductive Health was established under Prime Minister Swasthya Surakshya Yojna in 2009. There was an urgent need to develop this sub-specialty to look after women of reproductive age especially during pregnancy. The department was started with an aim to develop patient care, research and training in maternal fetal medicine and infertility. Identifying women at higher risk of developing pregnancy related complications is one of the major thrust of the department. Women with known medical disorders like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, liver diseases, immunological disorder etc are looked after before planning pregnancy and during pregnancy. Patients with bad obstetric history such as repeated pregnancy loss, previous baby with malformations, syndromes or adverse pregnancy outcome are dealt in depth with counseling and necessary investigations to have a successful outcome in future pregnancy.
Mission
Fetal therapy is routinely being done for various fetal conditions such as anemia, goiter, congenital heart block, supraventricular tachycardia, polyhydramnios etc. The department has performed more than 300 intrauterine blood transfusions and the smallest fetus to received blood transfusion at 18weeks with Hb of 0.9 gm/dl. This is one of the earliest intra uterine transfusions reported in world literature. The department has done very rare fetal procedures like embolisation of large placental tumor, fetal shunt for pleural effusion and amnioinfusion. Equipped with outdoor and indoor facilities with labour room and operation theater, the department looks after the women before, during and after pregnancy.
Vision
Fetal medicine considers “fetus as a patient” and encompasses detailed preconceptional evaluation of at risk couple including screening and ultrasound evaluation of fetus. Fetuses at risk are being identified by various non-invasive and invasive prenatal techniques such as chorionic villous sampling, amniocentesis, cordocentesis etc. Multifetal pregnancy reduction and selective fetal reduction are being done to improve the outcome in twin, triplet or higher order pregnancy.
