Dr. Rakesh Durkhure — Head of General in Delhi NCR

Dr. Rakesh Durkhure heads General, Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Surgery in Unit IV at Artemis Hospital in Delhi NCR, with more than 25 years of experience. His record lists general surgery, bariatric surgery, and surgical gastroenterology with hepatobiliary and transplant surgery.

His obesity work covers both ends of the treatment ladder. The gastric balloon is placed without an incision for patients not ready for surgery. Sleeve gastrectomy, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and mini gastric bypass are the operations, performed by minimally invasive or robotic approach, and bariatric surgery conversion covers patients whose earlier procedure needs changing. His general list is laparoscopic cholecystectomy, appendectomy, hernia repair with inguinal and ventral hernia named separately, and thyroidectomy.

His qualifications are MBBS and MS in general surgery, followed by MRCS from Edinburgh and four fellowships: FMAS in minimal access surgery, FIAGES from the Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo Surgeons, FALS in advanced laparoscopic surgery and FAIS from the Association of Surgeons of India. MRCS was taken at Edinburgh, so his surgical training has been examined under two systems rather than one.

He practises at Artemis Hospitals in Gurugram.

What the list adds up to is a surgeon whose common ground is the laparoscope rather than a single organ. The same instruments and the same access are used whether the target is the stomach, the groin, the gallbladder or the thyroid, and the four fellowships are all certifications of that approach.