Background and Present Content

Kanti Children’s Hospital (KCH) has a history of forty-five years of devotion to the nation in the field of child health care. It was established in the year 1963 AD under Soviet aid as a general hospital and was converted into Kanti Children's Hospital in the year 1970. Today KCH is 300 bed children’s hospital and it is planned to convert KCH into 500-bed institute of child health in the future. Government of Nepal has given the mandate to the Kanti Children’s Hospital Development Board for the development of infrastructure of institute of child health Foreign assistance has been instrumental in the growth and development of KCH. During 1970-1998, KCH received aids from German-Nepal Assistance Association. A number of specialized visiting doctors from Britain brought expertise in the area of anesthesiology and surgery. Between 1986 and 1993, the Japan government became a significant donor and patron of KCH. In 1986, late Mr. Ryutaro Hasimoto, then prime minister of Japan procured a major Japanese Grant Aid which enabled to replace all the out of date equipment with the new ones. In 1993, second phase of Japanese grant benefited KCH in terms of buildings and other facilities. This grant aid improved surgical and medical departments of the hospital. Assistance of Hashimoto Foundation is still continuing. At present, KCH is managed by Kanti Children’s Hospital Development Board (Board), which is an autonomous corporate body under the Ministry of Health and Population(M0HP), Government of Nepal (GoN). Members of the board are drawn from civil society and hospital management itself. The Board is heavily depended on GoN for human, material and financial resources. The Board plans to convert KCH into an independent full-fledged institute of child health in the future. The Board abides by the GoN guidelines to provide free medical treatments for poor patients coming from all over Nepal. The Board expresses immense gratitude to all organizations and individuals who joined us in the past for the growth and development of KCH and wish that such cooperation be continued in the future. At present Kanti Hospital provides Medical, Surgical and Emergency care , subspecialties like Neonatology, Pediatric Intensive Care(PICU), Neonatal Intensive Care(NICU), Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Oncology, out patient service and under five clinics (list in Annex). The yearly medical outpatient attendance for the year 2006(2062/2063) is 160,430 and the emergency attendance is 40659. The number of admited patients in medical and surgical wards were 6665 and 909 cases respectively.

The Human Resources For Health(HRH) situation of KCH:

This Hospital currently employs 12 Pediatricians, 3 Pediatric Surgeons, 39 Medical Officers, 84 general Nurses, 25 Technicians and Para-medicals and 107 support staff. In addition, pediatric faculty of Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) also provides services and use Kanti Hospital for pediatric teaching .