General and specialised surgery is run out of the hospital’s modular operation theatres, with the ward, the laboratory, digital X-ray and ultrasound, and intensive care on the same campus. Patients come to this clinic with pain in the abdomen, a swelling or lump somewhere on the body, a problem with the piles or fistula area, an infected wound, or a report from elsewhere that needs a surgeon’s opinion on it.
From complaint to a booked date
The list of procedures printed by this department is the hospital’s own statement of what it performs; anything outside it is referred, and the surgeon says where and why rather than leaving a family to hunt for it. Where a scan this campus does not offer is needed before a decision, that too is named at the first visit, so a patient is not asked to arrange their own investigation between two appointments.
Procedures performed
- General surgery
- Specialised surgery
Equipment on site
- Modular operation theatres
Timings Session days are not on this site yet — call the appointment desk before travelling.
Your visit, step by step
- Consultation with the reports you already have. For an abdominal complaint, come fasting if a blood test may be added the same day.
- Examination, blood work in the in-house lab, and the imaging the campus runs — digital X-ray, ultrasound and colour Doppler — where those answer the question.
- A decision with reasons: operate now, operate electively, or treat without surgery. Costs and admission length are discussed at the same conversation, not after the form is signed.
- For surgery: the pre-anaesthetic check, the modular operation theatre, the ward, and a discharge sheet with wound care, activity limits, the review date and the suture date.
What to bring to a surgical consultation
- Any scan or report done elsewhere as the images as well as the write-up, and the operative note from a previous operation — a lump that was already cut once is a different consultation from one that never was.
- Come fasting if the complaint is abdominal. A blood test or an ultrasound added on the same day is easier than a second visit arranged around food.
- The medicine list, with particular attention to blood thinners, steroids and diabetes tablets — these decide whether a date can be given at all, and what the anaesthetist needs to know.
- If an admission is likely at any point: the identity proof of the patient and of the person who will sign, and the insurance or GIC papers if you already hold them.
Questions the desk gets asked
Sometimes, and the surgeon is the one who has to say which case it is. Some complaints — an uncomplicated hernia, a symptomatic gallstone, an appendix that has already formed a lump — are operations; others — a fissure, a small cyst, a wound that needs dressing and patience — are not. The decision and the reason for it are given at the visit, in the same conversation as the cost.
An emergency is not scheduled, it is admitted. For an elective operation the date depends on the operation list and on the pre-anaesthetic check, and the admission desk gives it. Ask at that point how many days the ward stay is expected to be and what the all-inclusive figure covers — those two questions settled before the date is fixed is what prevents an argument at discharge.
Yes. A surgical opinion on somebody else’s scan is an ordinary out-patient visit, and it is often the cheapest thing a family can do before travelling. Bring the images, not only the typed report.
Where this clinic sits in the hospital
What a surgical case needs is on this campus rather than in three different places: the emergency door for anything that cannot wait, the laboratory, digital X-ray, ultrasound and colour Doppler for the workup, the modular operation theatres, the ward, and intensive care for the patient who needs watching after a big operation. Complaints that overlap other departments go to them first — bone and joint injuries to orthopaedics, eye injuries to ophthalmology, pregnancy-related surgery to obstetrics.
Severe abdominal pain with vomiting or fever, a hernia that has become hard, tender and will not go back in, repeated vomiting with a swollen belly, blood in vomit or black stool, a swollen red abdomen with pain in pregnancy, or a wound with spreading redness and fever: casualty now. Surgical emergencies are measured in hours, and an OPD waiting list is not the way in.