General Surgery

The Department of General & Laparoscopic Surgery at Gouri Devi Hospital & Research Institute provides a complete and full range of laparoscopic surgical services for those operations often done elsewhere by a large abdominal incision. Complete diagnostic and therapeutic services for the surgical problem are provided, as is the appropriate recommendation for operations via a laparoscopic approach where this approach offers potential benefit. The team is equally dedicated for trauma care/surgery. Procedure like emergency laparotomy can be efficiently carried by the team of doctors.

Laparoscopic surgery has been shown to cause less post-operative pain, allows for a faster discharge from the hospital, more rapid return to normal activities, and avoids the large, painful incision for “open” abdominal operations with smaller permanent scars. The operation is done by passing the instruments through small tubes into the abdominal cavity. A telescope is passed through one of the tubes to allow visualization of the operation.

Operations which are performed in this department include:

• Cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal)
• Appendectomy
• Liver biopsy
• Diagnostic laparoscopy
• Closure and treatment for perforated ulcers and other ulcer problems including vagotomy (both truncal and highly selective), intestinal obstruction -conditions requiring removal of part of the stomach, (either cutting scar tissue or intestinal bypass if needed) conditions requiring removal of a piece of the intestine,
• Conditions requiring removal of part or all of the colon (colectomy)
• Operations to treat pancreatitis and its complications or pancreatic tumors
• Operations to remove the spleen
• Operations to remove one or both adrenal glands.
• Operations to remove a section of the liver or to treat liver cysts
• Operations to create or reverse colostomies
• Operations to treat rectal prolapse
• Inguinal hernia repair
• Abdominal wall hernia repair
• Feeding jejunostomy
• Treatment for piles, fistula & fissures.