The department was founded in July 1996 with the following objectives:

• Patient care - High quality, state-of-the-art, evidence based

• Affordable - Treat all patients however sick or poor

• Quality training of GI Residents

• Research - Finding Indian solutions for Indian problems

• Accurate and comprehensive data collection

Over the last 11 years, we have performed a complete range of GI procedures including:

• Upper GI Transhiatal / Transthoracic Esophagectomy, Gastrectomy

• Colorectal Mesorectal excisions, Pouch procedures for Ulcerative Colitis, Sphincter saving operations for rectal cancer, Obscure GI bleeding

• Liver Transplantation, Resection, Radiofrequency ablation, Transarterial chemoembolisation, Portosystemic shunt

• Radical cholecystectomy for Gall Bladder, surgery for bile duct cancer, Hepatectomy

• Pancreas PDR, Necrosectomy

Every week the departmental performance is evaluated in a comprehensive audit meeting, which is published as an annual audit.

Liver resections: State of art equipment is available for preoperative evaluation such as MDCT, MRI and PET-CT and safe liver resections eg: CUSA, Argon beam coagulator, intraoperative ultrasound facility.

• More than 191 liver resections performed

• Mortality 2/144 (1.38%) in low risk patients

• Mortality 10/47 (21.27%) in high risk groups e.g. cirrhosis, high jaundice

• Cost of liver resection at SGRH - Rs. 150,000/- approx.

Gall bladder cancer: More than 139 resections have been performed

Bile duct: Over 269 patients with cancer of bile ducts or bile duct injury following surgery for gall bladder stones have been successfully managed

Pancreatic surgery: We are a high volume center for pancreatic surgery. We perform a complete range of procedures for the pancreas including resection and surgery for acute and chronic pancreatitis.

Pancreaticoduodenectomy: We have performed more than 203 pancreaticoduodenectomies and our results compare well with the best of international institutions. The average hospital stay for an uncomplicated patient is 8 days and the cost of operation is Rs. 125,000/- approx.

Liver Transplantation: From 2001 till date we have performed a total of 177 Liver transplants of which 173 were Live related and 4 were cadaveric transplants. This also included 16 pediatric transplants, 1 dual lobe transplant in which a right lobe and a left lobe from 2 separate donors were transplanted into a single recipient, and 2 Combined Liver & Kidney transplants.

Consultants: The department has the following consultants who joined on the following dates:

• 1996 Dr S. Nundy

• 2001 Dr A.S. Soin

• 2003 Dr A. Chaudhary

• 2006 Dr. Rahul Kakodkar

• 2007 Dr. Vinay Kumaran

Academic programme: in the year 2000 the National Board of Examinations recognized the department for DNB (Surgical Gastroenterology). Each year 2 candidates are selected through an entrance examination. Our residents have been invited as Chair / Faculty in different International and National conferences. They have presented over 15 scientific papers in the last 2 years. After the completion of their training they have been readily accepted in leading academic departments across the world e.g. Birmingham, Leeds, Athens, Amsterdam. In the year 2003, we launched the Gyan Burman Fellowship (paid; 3 months duration) to provide practicing surgeons with an experience of surgical gastroenterology.

Current DNB Residents:

DNB 3rd year:

• Dr. Amanjeet Singh

• Dr. Sanjay Goja

DNB 2nd  year:

• Dr. Disha Sood

• Dr. Azhar Perwaiz

DNB 1st  year:

• Dr. Tanveer

• Dr. Prashantha S. Rao

Senior Residents:

• Dr. Somnath Chattopadhyay

• Dr. Shridhar Sasturkar

• Dr. Prashant Vilas Bhangui