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SHEETAL SINGH

Dr. Sheetal Singh is a famous surgeon and a pioneer of laparoscopic surgery in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu And Kashmir. He was born on 21st August 1944. He was born in a village known as Kanahoma District, Baramulla, Jammu And Kashmir. He has been practicing the art of surgery for 40 years. After having post-graduated as a master of surgery from the prestigious teaching hospital named All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) from New Delhi, India. He was awarded a fellowship of the International College Of Surgeons and a fellow of the association of Gastroendoscopic surgeons of India. He has trained nearly 20 students to get their post-graduate degree in surgery and was responsible to guide them to complete their thesis. He had the privilege to be the first surgeon in Jammu And Kashmir state for laparoscopy. He has gone to many international meets, including the Conference Of International College Of Endoscopic Surgeons held in Singapore, in 2000. He has conducted surgeries on children from 3-6 years using micro laparoscopic instruments. One of the clinical snaps was published in the previous editions of LOVE AND BAILY SURGERY. He had the pleasure of conducting surgeries involving thrombactomies in clogged external iliac arteries. When holding an independent unit in Government Medical College, Srinagar, involving emergency abdominal surgeries, accident and emergency surgery like burrholes to remove the subdural hematomas. This was done even before there were no modalties of diagnosis like present-day CT scan or MRI of the skull. His wife is a gynecologist and he has 2 daughters. The elder daughter, Dr. Kanchan Kaur is the director of breast services at Medanta the Medicity, Gurugram, India, and the younger daughter is a practicing dentist in New Jersey. Dr. Sheetal Singh currently practices at Lochan Nursing Home in Trikuta Nagar, Jammu And Kashmir, India.