The Pediatric Department consists of an Out - Patient Section, a Clinical Division. Pay Section, NICU and a Community Pediatric Section. The Out- Patient Section averages 40 to 60 patients a day, attended by Senior Interns and Resident Physician Trainees under the supervision of a Pediatric Consultant. It serves as training ground for Senior / Junior Interns and Nursing Students. Subspecialty Clinics are held for Allergology, Hematology, Cardiology, Nephrology, Neurology and Pulmunology. The Clinical Division consists of 17 beds, under the care of the Resident Physician Trainees, supervised by the consultant assigned for the week. The Pay section of the pediatric ward consists of 43 beds, 13 beds in the Pediatrics Ward and 30 beds at Pay 2 and 3rd floor of the Phase I building, which are also available for training purposes for the Resident Physician Trainees and Senior Interns. A 2-bed capacity Isolation Room is provided for patients. A 6 bed PICU is manned by 2 intensivists and a pulmonologist.

The NICU consists of three sections, the ICU proper, Intermediate Area for our transient babies and an Isolation room for outborn babies. Our Admission for the Service patients averages 60-80 a month and for Pay patients averages 80 -100 deliveries a month. There are 10 -15 cribs in the rooming - in section or Maternity Home located at the OB ward. Because we are Mother - Baby Friendly Hospital we follow the recommended time of the Department of Health for rooming - in, except for sick babies who requires close monitoring. In the NICU, there are 25-30 cribs, 9 incubators, 1 transport incubator and
3 radiant warmers. In the Isolation room, there is one incubator and 3-4 cribs. All sections in the nursery are attended by Senior Interns and RPT's under the supervision of the Pediatric Consultants and 2 Neonatologists, who head the Nursery Section. A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit which can accommodate 7 patients is equipped with ventilators, cardiac monitors, perfusion pumps, blue bililights, pulse oximeters and CPAP gadgets.

Since November 2003, the Department, in cooperation with the John Hopkins Hospital Child Life Department and Psychosocial Care Foundation for Filipino Children, has opened a Play Therapy Room. Its objective is to create and utilize a nurturing health environment to minimize patient fears, stress and anxieties and to promote psychosocial adjustment in the hospital.