The department of Paediatric Surgery has been functioning since its inception in the year 1979, starting out with only few beds in the General Surgery Department. It has since developed into a full-fledged neonatal and paediatric surgical department providing specialised surgical services for newborns, infants, children, adolescents and young adults. It is the only fully functional and adequately staffed tertiary care centre for Pediatric Surgery in Gujarat, catering to patients from Gujarat and neighboring states.

The 100- bedded department is now located in the O3 block of the 1200 bedded Mother, Child and Superspecialty Hospital in the Civil Hospital campus. It has 20 NSICU beds, 20 PSICU beds and 60 beds in the A3 ward. It has two modular operating theatres with state of art equipment. It also has a high end IITV system for specialized radiological procedures.

Faculty:

  • Professor and Head: Dr.Rakesh S. Joshi (M.Ch, D.N.B.,MNAMS)

                                                           

  • Professor: Dr.Jaishri Ramji (M.Ch.)

 

  • Assistant Professor: Dr.Nirkhi Shah (M.Ch.)

 

  • Assistant Professor: Dr. Shreyas K. (M.Ch.)

 

Work Schedule

Outpatients are seen on Tuesdays and Fridays in the OPD department on the first floor of 1200 bedded building. Planned surgeries, including day care surgeries are done in two modular operation rooms on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Emergency surgeries are handled 24x7. Radiological procedures are performed by the M.Ch residents under guidance of the faculty in the department on Mondays and Thursdays. The department has an OPD turnover of more than 10,000 patients and 2200 admissions per year; performing 2500 surgeries annually including 550 neonatal surgeries and 450 day-care surgeries, and over 800 radiological procedures annually.

 

Services

The Department provides emergency neonatal and pediatric surgical services 24x7. The scope of work includes all general pediatric surgeries, single stage surgeries for complex anomalies like Hirschsprung’s disease, anorectal malformations and bladder exstrophy, with specialized surgeries including neonatal, pediatric urology with reconstructive work, thoracic, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, neurosurgery (Spina bifida, hydrocephalus), minimal access surgeries (Laparoscopy and Thoracoscopy), Endoscopic surgeries (Bronchoscopy, video assisted upper GI scopy, Cystoscopy) and Oncosurgery.

 M.Ch residency programme affiliated to Gujarat University with 3 admissions per year is available here.

 

The annual International Exstrophy-Epispadias workshop: A focused and committed annual workshop specifically for the comprehensive care of patients with bladder exstrophy–epispadias-complex. It was conceived in 2009 in collaboration with internationally renowned specialists from Children’s hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Cincinnati children’s hospital and Seattle Childrens’ in the United States and Sick Children Hospital in Toronto, Canada. The Department was recognized as “A Centre of Excellence for Bladder Exstrophy” in January 2020. The workshop has become a global teaching platform with observers coming for this unique experience from different parts of the world. Till now, 17 successive operative workshops have been completed, and more than 300 patients with exstrophy bladder have been treated.

Media recognition for Public awareness: A number of interesting and rare cases successfully operated in the department have been published in the media regularly which serves in increasing awareness among  public regarding the type of problems in children, their solutions and the availability of specialized care in Civil hospital, Ahmedabad. Examples: Polymelia, Rapunzel syndrome, thoracoscopic CDH repair, bronchoscopic removal of variety of foreign bodies, exstrophy repair, acid poisoning, gastric pull-up, successful surgeries on Covid positive babies and many more.