The Department of Gastroenterology is the only centre in this region to provide the services in this speciality for managing patients with all sorts of gastrointestinal, liver and pancreatic diseases. The departments offer and perform all diagnostic and therapautic upper & lower endoscopies and ERCPs with videoscopes for adults and children. The department has successfully performed more than 60 ERCP and more than 4000 endoscopies till date including different endoscopic procedures.

Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences Major Facilities And Strength
Well equipped advanced unit.
Critical Intestinal, pancreatic and liver disorder treatment.
Advanced endoscopic unit.
Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy of upper and lower gastrointestinal tract.
Paediatric therapeutic endoscopy.
Ability to handle removal of abdominal polyps, biopsy from terminal ileum to rule out Crohn's disease, intestinal tuberculosis of all age groups, dialation and stenting of oesophageal, gastroduodenal and colonic strictures.
Advanced ERCP facilities to handle all critical biliary disorders like big stones, worms, strictures and malignancies by removal of stones, dilation of strictures and stenting including metal stenting.
Therapeutic ERCP for pancreatic disorder.
Supporting Infrastructure
Full-fledged upto date laboratory
Radiologic and endoscopic facility
Ability to handle all liver disorders and end stage liver disease
PCR lab for chronic hepatitis B and C patients.
Full evaluation and treatment of different chronic liver diseases including biopsy
World Class Surgical Unit
State-of-the-art operation room complex (OR)
Facilities for pancreatic surgery
Facilities for new and latest gastrointestinal and hepatopancreatic biliary surgery
Cancer surgeries
Surgeon with experience from CMC, Vellore with adequate super speciality training in GI surgery
GUT Club and Radiology Club for complex Gastrointestinal problems
Facility for major hepatobiliary and pancreatic trauma
Future Plans
Work on small intestinal disorders
Perform liver resections and liver transplantation services.
Treated thousands of critical patients from far and near in last two years since inception and served the region with best professional services in the field.