RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICERS' UNIT

Paediatrics

The Paediatric Department provides inpatient and outpatient medical care for children of Canterbury, the West Coast, and, increasingly, regions further afield. Paediatric consultants, registrars, and house officers care for children up to the age of 15. Additionally, neonatologists from the Department along with registrars from the Department provide level III and Level II neonatal care at the Womens' Hospital.

The Paediatric Service at Canterbury DHB is the tertiary centre for Paediatric Oncology for the South Island.

The Paediatric Service at Christchurch Hospital cares for approximately 6,000 inpatients along with approximately 12,000 outpatients and daypatients. At the Womens' Hospital, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit provides intensive care of all children requiring such care born at Womens' Hospital along with a considerable number of children transferred into Christchurch from other areas.

Additionally, the Department is supplying an increasing number of outreach clinics to other cities including Dunedin and Invercargill.

Integral to the Department’s activities are teaching and research. The Department hosts both fifth and sixth year students at the Christchurch School of Medicine. An active research programme complements these educational activities.

For more information please contact

Dr Paul Shilitto, Clinical Director on (64 3) 3640 640