Dr. Mahendra Narwaley — Additional Director of Cardio Thoracic Vascular Surgery & Lead Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon in Delhi NCR

Dr. Mahendra Narwaley is Additional Director of Cardio Thoracic Vascular Surgery and Lead Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon at Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Delhi NCR, with more than 15 years of experience in pediatric cardiac surgery. His qualifications are MBBS, MS and MCh.

His procedures are the standard set for congenital heart disease. The arterial switch operation is performed on newborns whose great arteries arise from the wrong ventricles. ASD and VSD surgical closure seal the holes between chambers that are the commonest defects of all. The Glenn and Fontan procedures are the two stages used when only one ventricle can be made to work, carried out at different ages in the same child. Pediatric echocardiography is listed alongside them, which means the surgeon is also reading the scans that decide the plan.

He took MS in general surgery and then M.Ch in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, and his subspecialty exposure was built abroad at three dedicated children's hospitals: Children's Hospital at Westmead in Sydney, Queensland Children's Hospital in Brisbane, and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Training at three separate paediatric centres rather than one means exposure to three different sets of operative conventions.

Besides Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Gurgaon he has worked at Max Hospital in Saket, at Medanta in Lucknow and at Narayana Hrudalaya in Bangalore, which between them account for a large share of paediatric cardiac volume in northern and southern India.