Dr. Deepak Govil

Specialist: Laparoscopic Surgeon
Experience: 34+Years Experience
Hospital: Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi

Dr. Deepak Govil is an eminent GI, General, and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon, practicing successfully for more 34 years.
He is adept in performing surgery for Portal Hypertension, Splenectomy and Lieno-renal shunts, Ilio-anal Anastomosis with a pouch for Ulcerative colitis, Esophageal resection with Gastric pull up, Whipple’s Pancreato-Duodenectomy, and Hepaticojejunostomy for Biliary strictures and benign and malignant obstructive jaundice, etc.
He also carries out Surgery for Surgical obstructive jaundice, pancreatic diseases- Acute & Chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic malignancies, Upper and Lower GI Hemorrhage, GI malignancies – Esophageal, Gastric, Colonic, and Rectal cancers.

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In his career spanning over thirty decades, he has performed 1000 operations related to liver and Gastrointestinal Surgery including Laparoscopic surgery.
He spearheaded the team that was responsible for setting up the Department of GI Surgery at PSRI, New Delhi.
He takes interest in teaching and has served as Professor of Surgery at GTB Hospital, New Delhi.
He participated in Liver transplantation Surgery at Apollo Hospital held on 15th September 2006.
He was the recipient of the President’s appreciation award at IMA South Delhi Annual Convention in Jan’09.
He is a member of several prestigious associations that include Association of Surgeons of India, Delhi chapter of the Association of Surgeons of India, Indian Society of Gastroenterology, Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Indian Association of Endoscopic Gastro surgeons of India, South Delhi branch of the Indian Medical Association.
He was the Secretary of the Consultant forum of Apollo hospital till March’09 and organized lots of activities in the forum.
As the Convenor of “Delhi GI Surgeons club” from 1999-2008, he organized clinical meetings regularly in different departments of surgical Gastroenterology in Delhi.He is interested in research and has published papers in noted journals. He has also penned chapters in books.

Portal Hypertension
Splenectomy
Lieno-renal shunts
Ilio-anal Anastomosis with pouch for Ulcerative colitis
Esophageal resection with Gastric pull up
Whipple’s Pancreato-Duodenectomy
Hepaticojejunostomy for Biliary strictures and benign and malignant obstructive jaundice
Obstructive jaundice
Pancreatic diseases- Acute & Chronic pancreatitis
Pancreatic malignancies
Upper and Lower GI Hemorrhage
GI malignancies – Esophageal, Gastric, Colonic, and Rectal cancers

Indraprastha Apollo Hospital is a flagship hospital of India’s foremost healthcare groups,the Apollo Group. It is a highly renowned multi-speciality facility that offers tertiary and quaternary care services to domestic and international patients.
The 900 bedded hospital is outfitted with the most modern technology for diagnostics as well as therapeutic purposes.
A team of highly trained medical professionals work under all the 52 specialities at the hospital.