DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY AT BJ MEDICAL COLLEGE AND CIVIL HOSPITAL WAS STARTED IN 1965 BY DR PRADHYUT THAKOR. NEUROSURGERY RESIDENCY PROGRAMME WAS FIRST STARTED IN 1985 AND SINCE THEN DEPARTMENT HAS PRODUCED MANY EMINENT NEUROSURGEONS ACROSS ALL OVER INDIA.AT PRESENT NEUROSURGICAL TEAM LEAD BY DR JAIMIN K SHAH( PROFESSOR AND HEAD OF DEPARTMENT) THERE ARE 7 CONSULTANT NEUROSURGEONS, 14 RESIDENT IN MCH NEUROSURGERY RESIDENCY AND THERE IS AN ANNUAL INTAKE OF 5 RESIDENTS PER YEAR.
DEPARTMENT COVERS LARGE AMOUNT OF PATIENT EVEN ALSO FRON STATES NEARBY LIKE FROM MADHYA PRADESH, RAJASTHAN , UTTARPRADESH ,ETC... THERE IS AN ANNUAL OPD OF 14865 AND IPD OF 2640 AND HAD PERMORMED 2040 SURGERIES LAST YEAR .
WITH PLANNED OPERATIONS BEING PERFORMED EACH AND LEVERY DAY AND EMERGENCY OT BEING CONTINUOUSLY PERFORMED 24×7 AND DEDICATED NEUROSURGERY OPD FOR FOLLOW UP OF PATIENT TWICE A WEEK . AT DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY WE ARE PERFORMING WIDE VARIETY OF BRAIN AND SPINAL TUMOR, VASCULAR, SKULL BASE SURGERY OF BRAIN, ENDOSCOPIC SPINAL SUGERY,PAEDIATRIC SURGERY AS WELL AS EMERGENCY TRAUMA SURGERY UNDER SPECIALISED INTSTRUMENTS OVER THE YEARS.