Rainbow Children’s Hospital Launches Exclusive Centre Focused on Gut and Liver Health for Children
Chennai: With childhood gut-health issues surging at an alarming pace in urban India, from persistent constipation and reflux to early-onset inflammatory bowel conditions and metabolic liver disease, Rainbow Children’s Hospital, India’s leading chain of pediatric multi-specialty and perinatal hospitals today launched its exclusive Advanced Pediatric Gastro & Liver Centre, a dedicated facility focused entirely on safeguarding children’s digestive and liver health. As changing diets, increased consumption of processed foods, and sedentary lifestyles continue to affect children in Chennai, this centre arrives as a critical intervention offering specialised, child-centric care.
Commenting on the launch, Dr. Somashekara H R Senior Consultant- Pediatric Hepatology & Liver transplantation, Rainbow Children’s Hospital, said “We are delighted to launch this Advanced Pediatric Gastro & Liver Centre in Chennai, especially at a time when children’s gut and liver health is becoming a growing concern. Nearly 1 in 5 urban children is overweight, and more than half of them show early markers of fatty liver disease. We are also seeing increased cases of chronic constipation, abdominal pain and reflux. Early evaluation and specialized pediatric care are essential, and this centre is built exactly for that purpose. With this new centre, we aim to bring structured, specialized care that Chennai has long needed.”
Adding to this, Dr. Keerthivasan S, Consultant – Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, said “I’m happy to introduce our dedicated pediatric endoscopic suite as part of this facility, a crucial addition given the increasing number of children presenting with gut-related symptoms. We are witnessing a clear rise in pediatric inflammatory bowel conditions, reflux issues, and functional GI disorders triggered by changing diets and reduced physical activity. A dedicated, fully equipped pediatric GI and endoscopy setup is essential to manage emergencies, particularly foreign body ingestion and pediatric GI bleeding. This specialized suite ensures that every procedure is performed by pediatric specialists trained to work with children, where gentleness, precision, and safety are non-negotiable.”
The Advanced Pediatric Gastro & Liver Centre features a dedicated child-friendly endoscopic suite, specialized recovery areas, advanced diagnostic systems, and a multidisciplinary team comprising pediatric gastroenterologists, hepatologists, transplant specialists, pediatric anesthesia experts, and specially trained endoscopy technicians. The centre is capable of managing complex liver diseases, acute GI emergencies,
nutritional disorders, and long-term gut health issues. The expertise of the team builds on Rainbow’s proven track record, including multiple successful pediatric liver transplants.
Sharing his views on the launch, Mr. Bhaskar Reddy, Zonal Director – TN & AP, Rainbow Children’s Hospital said, “The Centre of Excellence we unveil today embodies our commitment to comprehensive, top-tier care, from routine gut issues to complex liver diseases. With prior experience in successful pediatric liver transplants and long-term GI care, we are confident this centre will offer families unmatched peace of mind and medical strength.”
The centre was formally inaugurated today by Dr. J. Radhakrishnan, I.A.S, Additional Chief Secretary, CMD – TNEB Ltd & TNPDCL, Chairman – TNPGCL, TANTRANSCO & TNGECL in the presence of senior doctors and the Rainbow Children’s Hospital leadership team.
Rainbow network comprises 22 hospitals and 5 clinics across 9 cities, with a total bed capacity of 2,285 beds. Our Pediatric services under “Rainbow Children’s Hospital” include newborn 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 fetal care, perinatal genetic and fertility care along with gynecology services.Rainbow Children’s hospital built on strong fundamentals of 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 and the spokes provide primary, secondary and emergency care in pediatrics and obstetrics, large outpatient services and comprehensive obstetrics, pediatric 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 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 program in private healthcare, offering post graduate residential DNB and fellowship program.
