The Paediatrics ICU admits children who have had surgeries, severely ill children or unconscious children, due to various diseases of the brain like meningitis and diabetic ketoacidosis, acute fulminant hepatitis, children with double pneumonia, etc. There are full facilities of ventilators in Paediatric ICU and Kidney dialysis for children can be carried out in the PICU as well.

The Neonatal unit has a dedicated Intensive Care Unit as well. The Northwest Neonatal ICU is Level 4 Tertiary Care Unit which admits newborn babies born with surgical problems. It handles all premature babies from 26 weeks of gestation and 800 grams. The unit has the capacity to ventilate up to 5 newborns and also has facilities of Noninvasive ventilation by C-PAP. Premature and bowel surgery newborn babies are managed with Total Parenteral Nutrition which is prepared in house, in state of the art drug center, in laminar flow environment with zero contamination.

NICU admits all prematures, septic newborn, newborn with seizure and meningitis or acute respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Surfactant therapy for premature lungs is regularly done here as well.

The Neonatal Unit has a High Dependency Unit (HDU) for newborns. It is a step down unit from NICU and all premature babies who are growing prematures or have improved from their life-threatening critical condition are first brought to this unit. These growing prematures are fed by special feeding technique to minimize incidence of infection. All children with high jaundice requiring exchange transfusions are also kept here till stabilized. Jaundice is treated by high quality phototherapy units.

The Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) is a further step down from Neonatal HDU. Newborns with mild pneumonia and respiratory issues as well as all growing premature who become more than 1500 grams are also kept in SCBU.

NICU admits all prematures, septic newborn, newborn with seizure and meningitis or acute respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Surfactant therapy for premature lungs is regularly done here as well.

The Paediatrics Department has also started the Northwest Neonatal Transport Services (NETS). This is a fully dedicated ambulance service only for neonates. Its main aim is to safely transport sick babies from all over Peshawar. This dedicated service is serving all the local community of KP. It retrieves sick infants from different maternity homes and other hospitals which does not have specialised staff and equipment available. It is done on family or in-charge pediatrician request. A specialised team consisting of neonatal doctors and nurses retrieves these newborns from the respective hospitals or maternity homes. The service, or any further information, can be obtained by calling 1028.

NICU admits all prematures, septic newborn, newborn with seizure and meningitis or acute respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Surfactant therapy for premature lungs is regularly done here as well.