Department of General Surgery

Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences Islamabad

Introduction
The Department increasingly receives patients
with grave surgical disorders particularly related
to trauma.
It is well equipped for carrying out routine minor
and major surgical procedures.
It has the necessary infrastructure for tertiary
level care of surgical patients with back up of
clinical and basic departments.

Introduction
It has highly trained surgeons with necessary
expertise to conduct advanced surgical
procedures.
More than Five hundred surgical operations are
performed by Department of General Surgery
every month.
The operation theatres currently used for these
procedures are three in number.

Structure
General Surgery Department consists of Two wards,
an OPD, Operation Theatre, Surgical ICU, and
Emergency.
There are four Units
Each Unit is headed by Professor/ Associate
Professor.
Work burden is equally distributed among the units
Each unit has its own OPD, OT, Emergency, Ward
days.

Staff
Overall unit is headed by Chairman Department of General
Surgery.
Other Staff Comprises of;
Professors
Associate Professors
Assistant Professors
Senior Registrar
Medical Officers
Post Graduate Residents
House Officers
Nurses
Paramedics
Other Supporting staff

Current status of Human Resource

S. No

Post

BPS

Working

Vacant

Professor

20

Associate Professor

19

Assistant Professor

18

Senior Registrar

18

Medical Officers

17

Post Graduate Residents

Trainee
MS = 23
FCPS = 27

50

Current status of Human Resource

S. No

Post

BPS

Working

Requirement

Head Nurses

17

Charge Nurses

16

17

Dresser

09

Ward Boys

02

05

10

Aya

02

02

04

Sanitary workers

01

08

04

Distribution of work
Daily OPD to cater 300 plus patient on daily basis.
Daily Emergency to cater 100 plus patients.
Wards comprising of 82 beds with additional 30
stretchers filled all weeks.
Operation Theatres days are distributed on daily basis
to each unit with emergency theatre also running on
daily basis.