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Neurosurgery at Lahore General Hospital Lahore / PGMI, Pakistan

The Department of Neurosurgery at Lahore General Hospital Lahore was started in March 1965 as a teaching department of King Edward Medical College, Lahore with few beds and almost non-existing diagnostic and operation theatre facilities.

This department, gradually over the years, developed to the extent that at present this is the largest Neurosurgical setup in Pakistan, consisted of approximately two hundred beds for Neurosurgical patients with its own Neuro-Radiology, Neuro-Pathology, Neuro-Physiology and Neuro-Rehabilitation Departments.

Its Neuro-Radiology section is only of its kind in the country that has all the modern Neuro-specific diagnostic equipment i.e. C.T. Scanner, Digital Subtraction Angiography, Bi-Plane Myelography Machines etc. Infect this is the hospital where the first C.T. Scan of the country was installed way back in 1980. Neurosurgical operation theatres of this department are best equipped in the country and have all the modern facilities like Modulus Theatre, Over-Head Operating Microscopes and Servo-Ventilators for Anesthesia etc.

About 4000 to 4500 Neurosurgical operations are performed annually. Department is providing emergency cover 24 hours a day throughout the week for head injuries and other neurosurgical seriously ill patients. We are looking after 50,000 patients in the OPD and 25,000 patients in emergency, annually.

We are proud to claim that Dept. of Neurosurgery at LGH trained 17 MS and 31 FCPS qualified neurosurgeons, serving all over Pakistan, overseas, and especially in Punjab, where most of the teaching and DHQ Neurosurgical units are headed by them.