Indira Gandhi Institute Of Child Health, is the brainchild of Dr.D.G.Benakappa (B.C.Roy awardee) who completed his training in Paediatrics from USA and UK.

He established the Benakappa Children's Trust Hospital, which he handed over to the Government of Karnataka, later to be renamed as Indira Gandhi Institute Of Child Health.

Established in 1991 and expanded in phases, Indira Gandhi Institute Of Child Health was a functional referral hospital by 1995.

It has grown over the years as a Paediatric Multi Super-speciality tertiary care hospital.

IGICH now stands as an esteemed institute for postgraduate training in Paediatrics (MD/DCh) and its allied Super-speciality course (MCh-Pediatric Surgery).