The facility is equipped with most modern high technology equipment and is staffed by well qualified, experienced consultants. The department is approved by the National Board of Examination, New Delhi, for postgraduate training in Orthopaedics. Currently there are six DNB students.
Facilities and Services
Out Patient Facility
About 150 patients are treated everyday in this facility. A separate block is dedicated for screening patients coming to the hospital for the first time. Genuine orthopaedic cases are referred to orthopaedic OPD for further care. As of February 2009, about 65,000 patients have received treatment in the unit. Special dedicated clinics for Paediatric orthopaedics, Ilizarov, spine, arthritis and trauma are conducted on a regular basis.
24- Hour emergency facility
An emergency department with 6 beds and a mini-operation theater provides 24-hour service to all emergencies in orthopaedics with major and minor trauma and other emergencies.
Physiotherapy Unit
A well equipped Physiotherapy section staffed by three full time well trained Physiotherapists provides physiotherapy services at the department.
Inpatient facility
The department has a 40 bedded ward (separate male and female ward). On an average, 7 admissions a day are made to the ward.
Operating facility
The department has 3 modular Operation Theaters fitted with the best equipment.
An 8-bedded post-op recovery room is also attached to it. Currently, eight major surgeries are done a day, adding up to around 3,500 surgeries from the inception of the department. The surgeries performed include:
- Total Joint Replacements
- Arthroscopic Surgeries
- Spine
- Ilizarov
- Paediatric orthopaedics
- Complex deformity corrections
- Acetabular Trauma
Faculty
There is a full-time faculty of three senior consultants, and one junior consultant. In addition, there are six postgraduate residents, including DNB students, and one in-house medical officer.
Orthoapaedic faculty list
| Dr. R. Varadachari |
Chairman |
| Dr. B. Kailash Rao |
HoD, Senior Consultant |
| Dr. V.R. Vasuki |
Senior Consultant |
| Dr. Manish Barot |
Senior Consultant |
| Dr. Prakash Khanchandani |
Consultant |
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| House Officer |
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| Dr. Asok Kumar |
Medical Officer |
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Visiting Faculty
Several senior orthopaedic consultants both from India and abroad regularly visit the hospital and perform surgeries and also take part in teaching staying up to 12 weeks at the hospital. A visiting professor of neuro-surgery from the USA also participates in teaching sessions frequently. This provides a different perspective and high quality training to the junior staff and DNB students.
| Dr. D.C. Sundaresh |
Professor of Orthopaedics and Medical Director, M.S. Ramaiah College Hospital, Bangalore. |
| Dr. Raj Reddy |
Orthopaedic surgeon, Department of Orthopaedics, Midland Memorial Hospital, Texas, U.S.A |
| Dr. Subhash Patel |
Senior Visiting Consultant, formerly with Moore Orthopaedic Clinic, Columbia, U.S.A |
| Dr. Anil Nanda |
Professor & Chairman, Department of Neuro-surgery
Louisiana State University, Shrevport, Louisiana |
Summary of Departmental statistics from July, 2006 to March, 2011
| Outpatient visits |
129,971 |
| Physiotherapy visits |
95,455 |
| In-Patient admissions |
7,318 |
| Major surgeries |
6,792 |
For any queries or an appointment please mail to enquirypg@sssihms.org.in along with the scanned copies of the latest medical reports.
You can also write to:
Patient Correspondence Cell
Room No. 132
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram,
Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh- 515134
Or call 08555-287388 ext 508. |
