Hospital discovery · Surgical Gastroenterology
Review 5 validated Surgical Gastroenterology hospitals, 19 affiliated GI surgeons and 6 mapped digestive operations in Chennai, India.
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Quick answer
Surgical gastroenterology treats selected oesophageal, stomach, bowel, liver, pancreatic, biliary and abdominal-wall disease. Planning depends on diagnosis, anatomy, disease extent, nutrition, organ function, previous operations and whether endoscopic, laparoscopic, robotic or open treatment is most appropriate. This Chennai page is limited to hospitals with a listed GI surgeon relationship.
5 validated hospital relationships currently match Surgical Gastroenterology in Chennai, including Apollo Hospital, Chennai, Apollo Proton Cancer Centre, Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, MGM Healthcare, Chennai, Rela Hospital. Counts require a matching hospital specialty and affiliated GI surgeon; they are not rankings or claims about outcomes.
6 digestive operations have validated hospital and doctor relationships in Chennai, including Liver Resection (Hepatectomy), Liver Transplantation, Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Whipple Procedure (Pancreaticoduodenectomy), Pancreatectomy, Anti-Reflux Surgery (Nissen Fundoplication). Open a procedure page for the exact hospitals and doctors connected to that procedure.
At a glance
Hospital inclusion requires a Surgical Gastroenterology relationship and an affiliated GI surgeon. Procedure pages additionally require matching hospital-procedure and doctor-procedure relationships.
Hospitals
Cards use factual campus data and validated relationship counts. Ordering is alphabetical by city and hospital name, not a ranking.
Showing 1–5 of 5
Chennai, India
JCI Accredited
NABH AccreditedApollo Hospital, Chennai is listed for Surgical Gastroenterology in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 1 affiliated GI surgeon. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Liver Resection (Hepatectomy), Whipple Procedure (Pancreaticoduodenectomy).
Chennai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH AccreditedApollo Proton Cancer Centre is listed for Surgical Gastroenterology in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 2 affiliated GI surgeons. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Liver Resection (Hepatectomy), Liver Transplantation, Whipple Procedure (Pancreaticoduodenectomy).
Chennai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH Accredited
NABL AccreditedGleneagles HealthCity Chennai is listed for Surgical Gastroenterology in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 3 affiliated GI surgeons. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Liver Transplantation, Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Whipple Procedure (Pancreaticoduodenectomy), Pancreatectomy and 2 more.
Chennai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH AccreditedNABL AccreditedMGM Healthcare, Chennai is listed for Surgical Gastroenterology in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 4 affiliated GI surgeons. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Liver Resection (Hepatectomy), Liver Transplantation, Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Whipple Procedure (Pancreaticoduodenectomy) and 2 more.
Chennai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH AccreditedNABL AccreditedRela Hospital is listed for Surgical Gastroenterology in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 9 affiliated GI surgeons. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Liver Transplantation, Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Whipple Procedure (Pancreaticoduodenectomy), Pancreatectomy and 1 more.
This table compares recorded attributes only. It does not score or rank hospitals.
| Hospital | City | Accreditation | Beds | Established | Validated procedures | Listed doctors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo Hospital, Chennai | Chennai | JCI · NABH | 745 | 1983 | 2 | 1 |
| Apollo Proton Cancer Centre | Chennai | JCI · NABH | 150 | 2019 | 3 | 2 |
| Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai | Chennai | JCI · NABH · NABL | 1000 | 1999 | 6 | 3 |
| MGM Healthcare, Chennai | Chennai | JCI · NABH · NABL | 400 | 2016 | 6 | 4 |
| Rela Hospital | Chennai | JCI · NABH · NABL · DHA | 450 | 2018 | 5 | 9 |
Procedures
Cities
Doctors
Each doctor has a matching hospital and Surgical Gastroenterology relationship. Procedure pages additionally require that exact doctor-procedure mapping.
Senior Consultant and Head of Department, Minimally Invasive Bariatric & GI Surgery
Dr. T S Bala Shanmugam is Senior Consultant and Head of the Department of Minimally Invasive Bariatric and GI Surgery at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 30 years of experience. His profile records surgical…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. J K A Jameel is Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India. He has practised surgical gastroenterology in India for 26+ years experience. Living-donor versus deceased-donor work-up, Whipple sequencing an…
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Director of Hepatology & Transplant Hepatology
Dr. Joy Varghese is Director of Hepatology and Transplant Hepatology at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 25 years of experience. His profile records gastroenterology and hepatobiliary medicine together with…
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Clinical Lead and Senior Consultant
Dr. Rajanikanth Patcha is Clinical Lead and Senior Consultant at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 22 years of experience. His profile records surgical gastroenterology together with gastroenterology and hep…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. P Anbalagan is a Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare, Chennai, with more than 21 years of experience. His profile records surgical gastroenterology, general surgery and surgical oncology for GI cancers. His list is…
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Senior Consultant, Liver and Renal Transplant Surgery
Dr. Gomathy Narasimhan is Senior Consultant in Liver and Renal Transplant Surgery at Rela Hospital, Chennai, with more than 20 years of experience. Her profile records surgical gastroenterology together with kidney tran…
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Clinical Lead – Laparoscopy Liver Surgery
Dr. Kumar Palaniappan is Clinical Lead for Laparoscopy Liver Surgery at Rela Hospital in Chennai, with more than 20 years of experience. His profile records surgical gastroenterology together with gastroenterology and h…
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Consultant
Dr. L SoundaraRajan is Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, India. He has practised surgical gastroenterology in India for 20+ years experience. Living-donor versus deceased-donor work-up, Whipple sequencing and bil…
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City context
Chennai has the longest-established international-patient corridor of the five cities, and named esophageal-cancer surgery listings at MGM Healthcare (Dr. Manikandan Venkatasubramaniyan, Dr. S. Srivishnu) and Rela Hospital (Dr. P. Saravanan). Listed surgical-oncology campuses also include Gleneagles HealthCity. Interpreters and visa-extension paperwork are ordinary desk work. Heat from April onward is the trade-off for a three-week ICU-to-hotel recovery.
Chennai has the longest-established international-patient corridor of the five cities, and named gastric-cancer surgery listings at Rela Hospital (Dr. P. Saravanan), MGM Healthcare (Dr. Sivaram Ganesamoni) and Gleneagles HealthCity (Dr. Vimalathithan S). Interpreters and visa-extension paperwork are ordinary desk work. Heat from April onward is the trade-off for a two-week recovery.
Listed Chennai campuses on the surgical-oncology pathway include Gleneagles HealthCity, MGM Healthcare and Rela Hospital. Named esophageal-cancer surgery consultants currently sit at MGM and Rela. Accreditation is on each profile as published.
Ask each house whether Ivor Lewis, McKeown, transhiatal or MIE is offered for your tumour, how many ICU nights are named, and how leaks are billed.
Chennai International to the listed campuses is the least punishing transfer of the five cities in ordinary traffic.
Interpreters for Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi and some African languages are easier to source on this corridor. Still ask.
Airport transfers are the shortest of the five cities — typically 20 to 50 minutes. That helps a companion doing twice-daily ICU visits more than a one-night admission. Air-conditioned lodging next to the campus is part of the medical plan in summer, not a luxury line.
Airport transfers are the shortest of the five cities — typically 20 to 50 minutes. That helps a companion doing twice-daily ward visits more than a one-night admission. Air-conditioned lodging next to the campus is part of the medical plan in summer, not a luxury line.
Treatment guides
Liver resection, or hepatectomy, removes a diseased portion of the liver — tumour or selected benign disease — with a margin, while preserving enough functioning remnant to support recovery. The liver can later increase in volume; that regeneration is not a copy of the piece that was taken out. The exact operation depends on tumour location, size, number of lesions, liver function, underlying liver disease, relationship to blood vessels and bile ducts, cancer type, previous treatment, overall health and the surgeon's assessment. GAF Healthcare does not decide on this page whether resection is appropriate. Treatment plans are determined by qualified doctors after evaluation.
Liver transplantation replaces a failing liver with a graft from a living or deceased donor when medical treatment can no longer sustain liver function. The diseased liver is removed and a whole or partial graft is implanted with hepatic-vein, portal-vein, arterial and biliary anastomoses. ICU monitoring of graft flow, bile output and immunosuppression follows.
Pediatric liver transplantation replaces a child's failing liver with a whole, reduced or living-donor graft when hepatology and a paediatric ICU already agree that medical therapy is not enough. The native liver is removed and a size-matched graft is implanted, often with microvascular arterial anastomosis and Roux biliary reconstruction. Paediatric ICU monitoring follows.
The Whipple procedure is a complex operation used to treat selected diseases of the pancreas, bile duct and nearby digestive structures, including some pancreatic cancers. The pancreatic head, duodenum, gallbladder and bile-duct segment are removed and the remaining pancreas, bile duct and stomach or duodenum are reconstructed. After exploration for unexpected metastases, the pancreatic head, duodenum, distal bile duct and gallbladder are removed. Pancreaticojejunostomy, hepaticojejunostomy and gastro- or duodenojejunostomy restore continuity. ICU monitoring of drain amylase and gastric emptying follows.
Pancreatectomy removes part or, in selected cases, all of the pancreas when disease extent is not captured by a named Whipple or distal-pancreatectomy template. The named portion of pancreas is mobilised and removed. Reconstruction, if any remnant remains, joins pancreas to bowel. After total removal, biliary and intestinal joins are completed without a pancreatic anastomosis.
Anti-reflux surgery with Nissen fundoplication wraps the gastric fundus around the lower oesophagus to restore a barrier against reflux after manometry and pH testing already support an operation. Usually laparoscopically, the hiatus is assessed, any hernia reduced, crura approximated and a 360-degree fundus wrap constructed around the lower oesophagus. A bougie or calibration method may be used as the surgeon prefers.
Cost guides
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
$10,000–$26,000 indicative planning range
$28,000–$55,000 indicative planning range
$32,000–$65,000 indicative planning range
$14,000–$32,000 indicative planning range
$12,000–$30,000 indicative planning range
$4,000–$9,500 indicative planning range
India planning ranges are not city tariffs, hospital quotations or patient-specific prices. A named hospital must confirm the written estimate.
Conditions
Conditions appear only when the controlled specialty profile or canonical procedure content records the relationship.
The appropriate digestive operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate digestive operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate digestive operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate digestive operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate digestive operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate digestive operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate digestive operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate digestive operation depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
Questions
5 hospitals currently meet the validated specialty and affiliated-doctor rules shown on this page.
6 controlled digestive operations currently have both hospital and doctor relationship evidence in Chennai.
19 listed GI surgeons are affiliated with the validated hospitals on this page.
Compare factual details such as city, accreditation, beds, established year, validated procedures and affiliated doctors. GAF does not assign an overall score or clinical ranking.
Use linked GAF cost guides as indicative India planning ranges. Technique, fractions, planning, imaging, admission and patient-specific requirements must be confirmed in a written hospital quotation.
Dr. Shabnam Choudhary, BDS, is a dental professional who graduated from Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka. She contributes to the curation and development of medically informative healthcare content, helping ensure that information is structured clearly and presented in a patient-friendly manner.
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