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Vision & Mission

VISION

To create knowledge, promote advanced learning and improve musculoskeletal health at the community, provincial and national level. The department aims to be a trusted tertiary referral centre for the region, including neighbouring districts of Telangana and Karnataka, offering expert, advanced and affordable orthopaedic care while training skilled surgeons and doctors of the future.

MISSION

To deliver compassionate, high-quality and affordable orthopaedic care, and to train and inspire skilled surgeons and doctors, through:

  • Providing comprehensive, expert care for trauma, polytrauma, spine, joint, sports, paediatric and deformity conditions, supported by modern equipment and sub-specialty services.
  • Ensuring free surgical care for the needy and poor under the MJPJAY and PMJAY schemes, with physiotherapy and rehabilitation as part of treatment.
  • Training MBBS students, interns and M.S. Orthopaedics residents as per NMC norms through structured teaching, hands-on surgical experience and supervised clinical responsibility.
  • Promoting research, publications, CMEs, workshops and academic activity at state and national level.
  • Serving the community through health camps, screening and awareness programmes, clubfoot (CTEV) care with CURE India, and distribution of prosthetics and mobility aids to the needy.
DEPARTMENT AT A GLANCE
  • Head of Department: Dr. Rajesh K. Ambulgekar
  • Units: 3 (Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3); bed strength: 100
  • Recognised M.S. Orthopaedics seats: 6 per year
  • OPD patients: more than 55,000 per year
  • Major operations: about 3,000–3,500 per year; including minor and day-care surgeries, about 11,000–13,500 per year.