Pediatric surgery is a superspeciality surgical discipline concerned with the treatment of surgical diseases of children such as anomalies requiring reconstructive procedures, specific surgical diseases peculiar to the pediatric age group and general surgical diseases afflicting children including trauma.

The present era of Pediatric surgery services in Gauhati Medical College can be said to have begun with the joining of formerly Dr. H. K. Bora with a super specialty degree of M.Ch course in 1982, although it was practiced by a few senior surgeons of the bygone era having special interest and training in surgical diseases of children. Starting from a scratch with no beds, no wards, no OT times, the dept has now grown by leaps and bounds to the present status of a full-fledged department boasting of a 36 bedded general ward, 10 bedded post-operative ward, 3 bedded recovery room, exclusive neonatal surgical ICU and a modern Operating theatre with facilities for Open, Laparoscopic and Endoscopic procedures. The OT, ICU and the post-operative ward are housed in a separate independent building. From a lone pediatric surgeon to start with, currently the department has faculty strength of four consultants and a registrar.

The department caters to approximately 7000 OPD patients, 1300 indoor admissions and 900 major operations yearly, apart from innumerable minor operative procedures performed in the department as well as other wards of the hospital. It also provides 24x7 emergency services and pediatric surgical consultations to the needs of other departments.

Since 2008 post doctoral (M.Ch) course in pediatric surgery has been started. It is a matter of pride for the department that after passing out, the students from different North Eastern states, are providing commendable pediatric surgical services to their respective states. The department is engaged in a regular busy academic schedule consisting of Seminars, Journal club, Clinical Case presentations, Sessions on operative surgery every week. A monthly inter departmental interaction is held with the Radiology department. This is in addition to the routine practical training imparted to the Post Graduate students rotating from the General Surgery department and the students pursuing Post doctoral course in the department.

The department has till now held several live operating workshops and Lectures/ CME’s by experts from outside the state. DR. D.K Mitra deliberated on Hirschsprung’s disease, Dr. S. Agarwala on Childhood Malignancies, Dr. D. Pawar on Pediatric anesthesia and Dr. V. Bhatnagar on Liver resections, all from AIIMS, New Delhi. Dr. Ravi Ramadwar from Mumbai enumerated on Minimally invasive surgery in pediatrics, Dr S.K.Aggarwal from MAM college Delhi, on Hypospadias and Dr. S. N. Kureel from KGMC Lucknow on Exstrophy, to quote a few.

The inaugural conference of the North East Chapter of the Indian Association of Pediatric surgery (NE-IAPS) was hosted by this department in 2003. Subsequently the annual conference of this association was held twice in 2005 and 2012 respectively. In 2008, the 34th national conference of the Indian Association of Pediatric Surgery being organized by the NE-IAPS was held in Guwahati for the first time with active participation of this department.

Students and faculty members of the department have actively participated in the annual conferences of the NE-IAPS and Association of Surgeons of Assam with papers, case presentations etc.

Faculties

Sl. No.	Designation	Name	Qualification	Reg. No	Photo
1	Professor & HOD	Dr. Jayanta Kr. Goswami	MS MCH	8808
2	Associate Professor	Dr. Rajib Ray Baruah	MS MCH	11945
3	Assistant Professor	Dr. Rupnayan Goswami	MS MCH	13156
4	Registrar	Dr. Deepshikha Kar	MS	23297

Courses

• Post Doctoral course in Pediatric surgery was started in 2008 with 2 seats per year.
• Selection to these seats are done through an entrance test and practical examination held by the Srimanta Sankardeva University of Health Sciences.

PG Students

Services

1. Out patient services are held thrice weekly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
2. Pediatric surgical emergencies on 24 hour basis
3. Pediatric surgical consultations required by other departments are provided daily
4. Surgical neonatal intensive care
5. Routine major operations six days a week
6. Emergency operations daily
7. Operation facilities : Open, Laparoscopic and Endoscopic (Bronchoscopy, GI endoscopy and Cystoscopy) procedures
8. Minor operation procedures daily
9. Academics and training programmes :
   1. Undergraduate theory classes on pediatric surgical diseases
   2. Training of Post graduate general surgery residents
   3. Training of Post Doctoral students of Pediatric Surgery
   4. Regular monthly Inter-departmental interaction with Radiology Department
   5. Regular weekly Seminars, Journal club meets, Clinical case presentations, Grand teaching rounds
   6. PhD guidance
10. Research project of ICMR on “Estimation of Vit B12, Folic Acid and Homocystine levels in children with Neural tube defects and in their parents”