Brief History & Introduction

The unit was established when Mayo hospital was built in 1871. This unit has been headed by many famous surgeons in the pre-independence era like Sargood Fry and Colonel Mirajkar. After independence Professor Riaz-e-Qadeer took over. After him many stalwarts of surgery like Professor Masood Ahmad and Prof. H.H. Mirza headed this unit. Now this unit is run by Prof. Dr. Khalid Javaid Abid.

Introduction

The West Surgical ward comprises of a 28 bedded male and 24 bedded female ward. The High Dependency unit consists of ten beds. The ward is equipped with basic facilities as well as special monitors and support machines for critically ill patients. The ward has teaching staff, consultant grade and trainee postgraduate students and house officers at its strength. The unit is run under a highly qualified Professor and two Assistant Professors, one being a fellow of Royal College of Edinburgh, UK and other a Fellow of College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan. Other consultant grade staff includes 6 senior registrars among them 5 are fellows of CPSP and 1 a fellow of Royal College of Edinburgh. The unit currently has 10 trainee registrars for various postgraduate degrees including FCPS, MRCS, and MS and 5 trainees on rotations who are completing the mandatory rotations in various specialties.

The unit has two Out Patient Department days in a week which is attended by the consultants, where on an average 150 patients are examined per day. The fourth and final year students attend the OPDs as apart of their clinical skill enhancing, training programs and are instructed on the patients.

There are two full elective list per week which have on an average 20 to 25 cases. These operated upon by senior surgeons and trainees under direct supervision. The final year students attend the operating sessions and are demonstrated the operative techniques.

The unit is on call in Accident and Emergency Department on a 4 to 1 Rota basis. Each call day we received an average of 250 patients of which 30 patients undergo surgery under anesthesia.

The student of third, fourth and final year MBBS are taught in the weekly lectures. These students attend the wards where they are instructed in the art of history taking and physical examination.

The unit has an average of 12 house officers per rotations who are trained in basic and advanced life support, trauma care and emergency management and in pre and pot operative care of surgical patients.

There are fifteen postgraduate students pursuing FCPS, MRCS and MS degrees. These students are trained on ward rounds, clinicopathological conferences, morbidity and mortality conferences journal club meetings alongwith the routine working of the ward. They are also supervised while performing minor and intermediate surgical procedures.

Faculty List

S.NO. NAME DESGIANTION QUALIFICATION

1. Dr. Khalid Javaid Abid
2. Dr. Syed Asghar Naqi, Assistant Professor FRCS ED/PCSP
3. Dr. Ashfaq Ahmed Assistant Professor FCPS
4. Dr. Hasan Khan Senior Registrar FRCS

Teaching Programs

Postgraduate Programs

• MS
• FCPS
• FRCS
• MRCS

Undergraduate Programs

a) MBBS,
b) BDS
c) Nursing
d) Physiotherapy

List of postgraduate trainees in the Unit

1. Dr. Humayun Siddiq MS
2. Dr. Ahmad Uzair Qureshi FCPS/MRCS
3. Dr. Ghulam Hassan FCPS
4. Dr. Ali Safdar FCPS
5. Dr. Shabbir Afridi FCPS
6. Dr. Ayesha Naeem FCPS
7. Dr. Syed Asim Khalid FCPS
8. Dr. Muhammad Riaz MS
9. Dr. Nadia Chaudhry FCPS
10. Dr. Adnan Chaudhry FCPS
11. Dr. Naveed Abbas FCPS
12. Dr. M. Jamil Mohsin FCPS
13. Dr. Suhail FCPS
14. Dr. Waqar Hassan FCPS
15. Dr. Abrar Abbas FCPS

Research Project

? Evaluation of laparoscopic management of acute abdomen.
? Colonic surveillance in colorectal carcinoma for metachronous and synchronous lesions.
? Extra-anatomical grafting as limb salvage in femoral pseudoaneurysm in drug addicts.
? Survival benefits of hepatic resection in metastatic colorectal carcinoma.
? Efficacy of TRISS in penetrating and blunt trauma.
? Comparison of complications after transhiatal esophagectomy in benign and malignant esophageal strictures.