• Source: Institute of Child Health, Kolkata
    • Institute of Child Health is a hospital in Kolkata, India offering post-graduate training in pediatrics under West Bengal University of Health Sciences. It has a distinction of being the first pediatric institute of India.


      History


      The Institute of Child Health was set up by Dr. K.C. Chowdhury, the doyen of Indian pediatrics, in Kolkata in 1953. Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India, inaugurated the institute on 16 January 1957. It is the first pediatric institute of India.


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