Rainbow Children's Hospital, Currency nagar

Rainbow Children's Hospital and BirthRight by Rainbow, Currency Nagar is a 130-bed children's and women's hospital in Vijayawada, established in 2007. It is accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) and runs 24 hours a day.Neonatal intensive care is the hospital's defining service. Its level 3 neonatal intensive care unit treats critically ill newborns, premature infants and low birth weight babies, using high-frequency oscillatory ventilation and nitric oxide therapy.A paediatric intensive care unit with isolation facilities handles critically ill children, including infectious disease cases.Paediatric subspecialties are broad: paediatric surgery, neurology, cardiology and cardiac surgery, gastroenterology, endocrinology, haematology and oncology, nephrology, ENT, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, dermatology, dentistry, podiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry with child psychology. Children's infectious diseases and child vaccination are handled as standing services.BirthRight by Rainbow covers women's health: obstetrics and high-risk pregnancy, foetal medicine, gynaecology, gynaecological endoscopy and laparoscopic surgery, and a maternal intensive care unit. Women's health physiotherapy runs alongside.The fertility wing offers IVF, intracytoplasmic sperm injection and cryopreservation.Rainbow Children's Hospital is located at 48-10, 12/2A, Service Road, Nagarjuna Nagar, Currency Nagar, Vijayawada 520008. Currency Nagar sits on the Benz Circle side of the city near the Bandar Road and Eluru Road junctions, the part of Vijayawada where most of its specialist hospitals are. A level 3 NICU here is the referral point for sick newborns from the Krishna and Guntur districts, who would otherwise be moved to Hyderabad or Chennai.