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Bengaluru. With an aim to Strengthen specialized pediatric care for allergic disorders, Rainbow Children’s Hospital has launched a Multidisciplinary Pediatric Food Allergy Clinic at its Marathahalli unit, Bengaluru. The clinic is designed to address the growing need for accurate diagnosis and structured management of food allergies in children, offering families access to coordinated, expert-led careunder one roof.
The clinic focused on delivering precise diagnosis and personalized treatment through a comprehensive and holistic approach to care. Rather than focusing solely on investigations, the emphasis is on understanding each child’s condition in depth and creating a well-rounded management plan tailored to their needs.
Speaking about the initiative, Dr Lavenya R Padmanaban,Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Dr Nandana Bala,Pediatric Allergy Specialist‘Food allergies in children are often misunderstood, leading to delayed diagnosis or unnecessary dietary restrictions. Our goal is to provide accurate, evidence-based care while ensuring that a child’s nutrition and growth are not compromised. Through this multidisciplinary clinic, we can offer safe, structured evaluation and effective personalized treatment, while also supporting families with the right information and guidance.’
Clinic follows multidisciplinary approach collaborating with Pediatric Gastroenterologist,Pediatric Allergist and Specialist Pediatric Dieticianto address related conditions such as asthma, eczemaand digestive disorders. This integrated model ensures that care goes beyond symptom management to support the child’s overall growth, strengthand well-being.
With increasing awareness around food allergies, but also a rise in misconceptions, the clinic aims to provide clear, expert-led guidance. Through coordinated and evidence-based care, Rainbow Children’s Hospital seeks to build confidence among families and drive improved health outcomes for children.
About Rainbow Children’s Medicare Limited
Rainbow Children’s Medicare Limited network comprises 23 hospitals and 5 clinics in 9 cities, with a total bed capacity of 2,375 beds. Our Pediatric services operating under the brand “Rainbow Children’s Hospital” includes new-born and pediatric intensive care, pediatric multi-specialty services, pediatric quaternary care (including organ transplantation); whereas our women care services under “Birthright by Rainbow” offers perinatal care services which includes normal and complex obstetric care, multi-disciplinary foetal care, perinatal genetic and fertility care along with gynecology services.
Rainbow Children’s Hospital built on strong fundamentals of a multidisciplinary approach with a full-time consultant led clinical service along with 24/7 commitment in a child centric environment. The company follows a hub-and-spoke operating model where the hub hospital provides comprehensive outpatient, inpatient care, with a focus on tertiary and quaternary services, while the spokes provide 24/7 emergency care, large outpatient services and comprehensive obstetrics, pediatric inpatient and level 3 NICU services. This model is successfully operational at Hyderabad and is gaining traction in Bengaluru. The endeavor is to replicate this approach in Chennai and across the National Capital Region. Subsequently Rainbow intends to expand into tier-2 cities of Southern India.
Rainbow Children’s Hospital embraces a unique doctor engagement model, where doctors work exclusively on a full-time, retainer basis. The doctors work in teams and have 24/7 commitment, which is particularly important for children’s emergency, neonatal, pediatric intensive care services and to support pediatric retrieval services. The Company also operates the country’s largest pediatric DNB training programme in private healthcare, offering post graduate residential DNB and fellowship programmes.