Hope Hospital on Pediatric Care

Hope was founded with one simple idea: every child deserves affordable world-class care, regardless of where they’re born. Over the past two decades, we've seen over ten lakh patients, and every one of them represents a story of trust, care, and healing. From the very beginning, our mission has been to bring the best in pediatric and neonatal care to children across Telangana and beyond.

There are many, but one that stands out is a baby boy who was born weighing around 800 grams, with multiple organ failure. He spent nearly three months in our NICU, supported by a team working day and night using advanced neonatal interventions. Today, he's completely healthy—a thriving, normal child. It’s cases like this that remind us why we do what we do.

I’ve always believed that if you’re not advancing your skills, knowledge, and capabilities you’re doing a disservice to the families that put their faith in you. Patients and their families come with the Hope and belief that we can help them, and it is our duty to give every patient our everything. This is the philosophy I’ve had throughout my career. I remember first ventilating a neonate in 1994. To my knowledge nobody had done that yet in Hyderabad, but that helped save that baby when it wouldn’t have been possible earlier. That same spirit drives us today. We were early adopters of mechanical and non-invasive ventilators, CPAP machines, and advanced surgical technology. Now, we’re bringing AI into our OP consultations to reduce the administrative burden on doctors and let them focus fully on treatment. That’s what evolution in medicine should look like—leveraging tools to amplify human care.

Access is one of the biggest challenges in pediatric care in India. Families travel from villages and districts, often referred by word of mouth after hearing from patients that have been treated at Hope. Recently, we formally adopted two districts to deepen our outreach and accountability there. We conduct regular camps, raise awareness, and build trust on the ground. When one child gets better, that story spreads—and that’s the most powerful form of outreach we can have.

Our growth and child development center was one of the first in the city. Nutrition is often neglected, even today, and we focus heavily on nutritional assessments in our consultations. Nutrition can affect brain development, physical development, as well as obesity and future lifestyle illnesses so it is a core part of child health. Mental health is another area where we’re playing catch-up as a country, so we use various touchpoints to spread awareness including waiting area displays, pamphlets, and most importantly - doctor conversations to educate families.

The biggest challenge is consistency in quality across doctors, and across different times. Emergencies don’t wait for the clock, and children need the same quality of care at 2 AM as they do at 2 PM. We've worked hard to ensure top-tier staffing at all hours, especially during nights and holidays. The next area is training – we conduct frequent training to standardize treatment regardless of which doctor, nurse, or technician is with a patient. But this is a continuous process, as new staff joins it takes time for them to buy in and understand the system that is Hope.

With excitement—and caution. New treatments can be game-changing, but our philosophy has always been to intervene only as much as needed. The human body, especially a child’s, has incredible healing power. Our job is to support it, not over-medicate or over-diagnose. That balance—between scientific progress and medical humility—is what defines good care.