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Bijal Srivastava

Bijal Srivastava MD

Pediatrics
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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Dr Bijal Shrivastava has been working at Dr. L H Hiranandani Hospital as a Time pediatric consultant since August 2006. She has been in pediatric practice for the last 12 years. Initially, she worked as a lecturer at B.J. Wadia Children’s Hospital, Mumbai. Then as a clinical assistant at P.D. Hinduja Hospital in the intensive care unit for a year. She has also been an observer in the intensive care unit at Long Island Jewish Hospital in New York. She has had a distinction in pathology and in medicine during her postgraduate training. She had won Dr Palekar's prize for being first among GS and KEM hospital students in 1999.

Presently, at Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital, she is taking care of OPD patients, indoor admissions, and taking care of a 9-bed vibrant NICU. Also, she along with the pediatric physiotherapy department has initiated a specialty clinic - `HOPE CLINIC’, which is intended to detect early any neurological problems in babies who have had a turbulent NICU course, and then subsequently take care of those problems to prevent any long term handicaps in those infants.