VITHAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & SPECIALITY CENTRE

INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH

Dedicated to child care With a motto

"CHILD'S SMILE OUR PRIDE"
We trust in God and believe in the statement

"I TREAT, HE CURES"
100 bedded exclusive children's hospital with super speciality services

Vithal Institute of Child Health & Speciality Center

Started with small step with 5 beds way back on 27th dec 1978. Inaugurated by the Doyen in the medical field former Director of health service and former dean of KMC Hubli, Dr Nadkarni.
- 27th dec 1978
The hospital is named after his father Late Shri Vithal Rao Deshpande. This first ever exclusive pediatric hospital in Dharwad was inaugurated on 27th December, 1978 by Dr.D.V.Nadkarni, a doyen in the field of medicine. Subsequently, a special wing in 1982 and a new hospital building with special rooms, PICU and NICU were built in the 1991. A state-of art outpatient department was opened in 1997.