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Best Children's Airway & Swallowing Centre in Kolkata
Best Children's Airway & Swallowing Centre in Kolkata  | Manipal Hospitals

Children’s Airway & Swallowing Centre

Best Children's Airway & Swallowing Centre in Kolkata


Specialized care for pediatric respiratory and swallowing disorders is the primary goal of the Children's Airway & Swallowing Center at Manipal Hospitals Mukundapur. Committed to delivering careful and compassionate treatment, the experienced team of doctors uses advanced facilities for diagnostic as well as therapeutic interventions. To deal with a variety of diseases our skilled team uses modern facilities for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, offering each child receives meticulous and compassionate treatment. Focused on pediatric health issues related to swallowing and respiratory wellness, the department lays stress on personalised, high-standard care to enhance the well-being of young patients. The treatment facility points to addresses a wide range of diseases, ensuring that each child receives specific attention and support. The dedication of the department to advanced medical interventions underscores its commitment to the health and recovery of pediatric patients.

Best Children's Airway & Swallowing Centre in Kolkata

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Why Manipal?

The children’s airway & swallowing center in Mukundapur is the only one of its kind in India & the Southeast Asia region. As part of one of the top-ranked & largest hospitals in India, we have cared for children from all over the country and beyond.

Manipal Hospital is the largest multidisciplinary program of its kind with more than 50 referrals each year. The children’s airway & swallowing centre is solely devoted to the evaluation, treatment, and follow-up care of all neonates and infants with complex airway issues. Our centre serves as the only full-service regional evaluation centre for neonates and infants with congenital and acquired airway disorders associated with extreme prematurity, congenital birth defects, genetic syndromes, or other acquired vocal cord and tracheal problems.

We offer these infants seamless care with the most innovative diagnostics and therapeutic modalities. We also provide extensive counselling and education to parents or caregivers to help them in their child’s care.

Best Children's Airway & Swallowing Centre in Kolkata

Our team at Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, Division of Paediatric Otolaryngology is trained to evaluate and diagnose patients based on past medical history, clinical exams, and diagnostic tests. 

Our highly-experienced Paediatric Otolaryngologists (ENTs) can assess all the information and provide an individualized treatment plan for your child that may or may not include surgery.

Parents find that by coming to Manipal Hospital, their children receive the expert care they need in a child-friendly and family-centred environment.

We have a gamut of specialised doctors with state-of-the-art facilities that enable us to treat the child more effectively.

As empathy is the core value, we uphold compassion and care that creates a comfortable ambience for the child.

Best Children's Airway & Swallowing Centre in Kolkata

Facilities & Services

We diagnose & manage the conditions listed down:

  • Choanal Atresia

  • Complete tracheal rings

  • Foreign body aspiration

  • Glottic stenosis

  • Laryngeal atresia

  • Laryngeal trauma

  • Laryngeal web

  • Laryngomalacia

  • Laryngotracheal cleft

  • Pyriform aperture stenosis

  • Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis

  • Saccular cysts

  • Stridor (Noisy Breathing )

  • Sub glottic cysts

  • Subglottic hemangioma

  • Subglottic stenosis 

  • Tracheal stenosis 

  • Tracheomalacia 

  • Vallecular cysts

  • Vocal cord cysts

  • Vocal cord nodule

  • Vocal cord paralysis

  • Vocal cord polyps

The airway team also specializes in the care of children with long term tracheostomies. These patients are followed timely to ensure appropriate tracheostomy care and help manage potential complications from having long term tracheostomies. The team also helps to plan the decannulation process and support those children whose conditions resolve over a period of time.