GGH Nizamabad saw 59 surgeries on 25 August, highest number for a single day

This September, Nizamabad GGH completes 10 years; and probably Thursday was the best and busiest day for its doctors, said Dr Madala, who has been with the hospital since its inception in 2012.

“While OBG and ophthalmology surgeries were the highest with 20 each in 24 hours, there were nine general surgeries, eight orthopedic, and two ENT surgeries,” Dr Madala said.

The hospital’s doctors, in fact, performed 78 percent more surgeries than the other eight government medical colleges in Telangana.

Planning, scheduling the key

Handling such a large number of surgeries is not easy — each of them has to planned and scheduled in a proper manner, said Dr Madala.

The hospital has 13 operation theatre (OT) tables and seven OT rooms. Doctors from different departments need to schedule their surgeries in a systematic manner so that the OT rooms operate back-to-back but without any hitch.

Asked whether doctors were stressed as they had to perform back-to-back surgeries, Dr Madala said that, on the contrary, they were highly motivated because they know that the patients who visit the GGH are from poor backgrounds.

“They are motivated and they are very service-oriented. They know that the patient who comes to our hospital could not afford any private care and will need utmost priority in terms of surgery or care. On Thursday, a neurosurgery, in fact, started at 9 pm and went on till about 4 am. It was a complicated case,” Dr Madala explained.

Meanwhile, the performance review across the nine major hospitals found that, together, they performed about 9,000 surgeries in a month, in five streams. That is an average of 33-34 surgeries per day in each GMC.