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Paediatric Surgery service was started at DMC & Hospital in 1986 by Dr R J Singh. It was started with a vision to provide specialized care to the children with surgical diseases. Dr Singh had his training ( M Ch, Paed Surgery) from PGIMER, Chandigarh and gave 26 years of experienced service from 1986 to 2012.

Dr Sushil Budhiraja joined as Assistant Professor in 2001 after completing his M Ch ( Paed Surgery) from PGIMER, Chandigarh. He carried forward the service, ie delivering affordable surgical care to the sick children. Dr Alka Grewal joined in 2017 as Attending Consultant after completing M Ch ( Paed Surgery) from Mumbai University & 3 years of work experience In UK. Dr Arihant Jain joined in 2022 after completing M Ch ( Paed Surgery) from PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has special interest in Oncosurgery in children.

We have a fully equipped Paediatric Surgery OT with state of the Art monitoring equipment, Anaesthesia work station, Hydraulic Pediatric OT table, LED OT light electrosurgical unit, Harmonic scalpel, State of the Art HD Laparoscopy & Uro-endoscopy equipment & other Pediatric surgical instruments. Postoperative High dependency unit (HDU) is also functional. We are running four OPD days per week. Nearly 250 patients are operated in an year which include Neonatal surgeries, GI surgery including emergencies, Paediatric laparoscopy, Paediatric Urology, Paediatric oncological cases & Paediatric thoracic cases.