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As of December 2018, we have performed 83 open heart surgeries or major surgeries,” he said. The surgical gastroenterology department which used to mainly handle appendicitis, hysterectomy among other simple surgeries, has now begun operating all pancreatic tumours, performing laparascopic surgeries, liver surgeries and complicated appendicitis surgeries,” he added.While three major surgeries were performed in surgical gastroenterology in March 2017, the number rose to 26 in March 2018.Besides this, there is a spike in surgeries performed across departments like neurology , plastic surgery, orthopedics and ENT. In orthopedics, the number of major surgeries performed in 2018 was 1,700 more than the previous year, head of the department Dr Vetrivelchezhian said. “Averaging five a month,” he added.The vascular surgery department started in 2018 performed 18 major surgeries last year. More than a century after it was commissioned, the hospital opened its cardiology department and began performing open heart surgeries in mid-2017..