General Information
Department of Orthopedic
General Information
Orthopaedics department of Sawai Man Singh Medical College was laid down by Great Orthopaedic Surgeon “Padam Shree Dr. P.K. Sethi”. Ours is one of the biggest and oldest departments of hospital and caters almost 500 outdoor patients every day and performing more than 30 Surgeries per day.
Currently our department has all sub- specialties like COMPLEX TRAUMA, ARTHROPLASTY, ARTHROSCOPY, HAND AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, PEDIATRIC SURGERY, SPINE SURGERY and ORTHOPEDIC ONCOLOGY. Our department is well equipped with recent instrumentations and we perform all major orthopaedic surgeries with good results.
Our department is probably the biggest department of our country with 10 Senior Professors, 3 Professors and 13 Assistant professor–i.e 26 faculty members with 7 fully functional units and two small units in associated hospitals- Kanwatia hospital and PDDU, Gangori Bazaar hospital
Every year, we have 27 fresh Post Graduate students entering in the department. We have proper functioning teaching schedule for Orthopaedics residents and MBBS students. We have our own pathology museum showing various orthopaedic conditions and we have a well equipped library
Our wards include N.W.I, N.W.II, N.W.III, North wing lower Ward, Poly-trauma ward in TRAUMA WING with a total of 213 beds. This includes 146 Male beds & 67 Female beds. At a time almost 150 patients are admitted in our department. Our record reflects that our trauma surgeries per day are highest in number whole Asia.
Brief Introduction of Department (pdf)