I.   Exclusively for the Dept. of Surgery

Patient care facilities available

Availability of surgical experts including senior and junior consultants, residents and house officers round the clock.
Bed strength of 210 beds with separate male and female, general and post operative wards with current bed occupancy rate of over 100%.
Full fledged surgical intensive care unit with ventilators as well as invasive and non-invasive patient monitoring facilities.
Full fledged theatre complex with 3 major theatres and 1 minor theatre functioning 6 days a week. 
Regular Laparoscopic unit functioning 6 days a week.
Full fledged Casualty department functioning round the clock, 365 days / year with facilities for acute care and management and for dealing mass casualty.
Casualty Emergency Operation Theatre (CEOT) working round the clock. 
Out – patient department functioning 6 days a week with a turn over of average 200 patients per day.
Out – patient day surgery theatre on all days.
Round the clock lab and radio diagnostic facilities including CT scan.

Teaching facilities 

Expert faculty
170 teaching beds with annual admissions averaging 7030 admissions.
Rooms for clinical demonstration.
Seminar rooms
Class rooms with advanced audio-visual teaching facilities.
Separate department library with access to international journals.

A.  Office Rooms

1.Head of the Department & Unit Chief S1
2.Professor ofor of Surgery Surgery & Unit Chief S2
3.Assoc.Professor of Surgery & Unit Chief S3
4.Assoc.Profess & Unit Chief S4
5.Assoc.Professors(Nos 2) common office room
6.Department Library cum CA's office
7.Seminar room
8.Junior Doctors room

B.

1.Staff room for Asst.professors & Lecturers
2.PostGraduate's room
3.Surgical Wards & beds-Detailed attached
4.Operation Theatres (3 major & 1 minor theatre each day)

II.   Shared with other departments

1.Central Library
2.Electronic Library (Learning Resources Centre)
3.Clinical Labs
4.Pathology Lab
5.Blood Bank

III. Equipments

1.Carl Storz Sigmoidscope with Light source
2.Carl Storz Upper GI Endoscope
3.Keltron Film projector and accessories
4.Laptop computer
5.Desktop computer
6.Operating Laparoscope - 1
7.Ventilators in SICU
8.ECG Monitors-6
9.Pulse Oxymeter
10.Defibrillator with ECG Monitor -1
11.Laparoscopic Endotrainer-1

IV. Courses run by the Department

V.   Academic Activities

Clinical demonstration
Clinico-pathological conferences 
Didactic lecturers
Tutorials
Seminars

Bed side clinics
Casualty training
Journal clubs
Symposia
Clinical club
Case presentations
Surgical club
Panel discussion

VI.   Papers Presented

Dr.John S KURIEN,Associate Professor,presented a paper on Retromandibular vein approach for parotidectomy in December 1998 at the National Conference of Association of Surgeons of India.He also conducted a study from 1997-1999 to establish the correlation of the iodine content of drinking water and urinary iodine content in patients with goitre to identify the incidence of iodine deficiency diarrhoea in goitre patients in Central Travancore

VII. CME's

Conducted every year by the department

VIII. Conferences

Conducted every year