Location information
Hospital address
Frere hospital Frere hospital Amalinda Main Road Amalinda East London EASTERN CAPE 5247 South Africa
Hospital type
Public University-affiliated
Hospital description
Third-Level Hospital (Referral)
This is a teaching hospital
Description
Dr Milind Chitnis is the Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Paediatric Surgery at the East London Hospital Complex, affiliated with the Walter Sisulu University in East London, South Africa. He has been the Honorary Secretary of the College of Paediatric Surgeons of South Africa for 2020-2023 and a member of the Council of the College of Paediatric Surgeons of South Africa for 2017-2026. He is the Honorary Secretary of the Pan African Pediatric Surgical Association (PAPSA) for 2023-2025 and the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (GICS) for 2024-2027. He is also a founding Trustee of the NPO- Eyabantwana for the Children- which supports the needs of the Department of Paediatric Surgery in East London. He is passionate about improving paediatric surgical care and training in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Africa.
Member information
Name
Milind Chitnis
Member type
Individual independent practitioner
Specialty
General Surgeon
Subspecialties
- Paediatric
Languages spoken
- English
Professional affiliations / memberships
- Paediatric
- Other
- IAPS
Other membership organisations
HPCSA: MP0425664
Social profiles
Conditions treated
- Burns
- Acute burn care
- Post-burn reconstruction
- Inhalation injury
- Gastrointestinal
- Volvulus
- Bowel Obstruction (parasitic, adhesive, mass)
- Benign polyps
- Appendicitis
- Anal disease: Hemorrhoids, fissures, fistulae, prolapse
- Incontinence
- Stomas – colostomies / ileostomies
- GI bleeds
- Endocrine
- Pancreas
- Hepatobiliary
- Liver disease benign
- Liver tumors malignant
- Cholelithiasis/choledocholithiasis
- Pancreatic pseudocyst
- Paediatric
- Tracheo-esophageal fistula
- Newborn intestinal atresias
- Ano-rectal malformations
- Hirschsprung’s Disease
- Tumors (Wilms’, neuroblastoma, hepatoblastoma)
- Head and neck anomalies
- Abdominal wall defects (gastroschisis, omphalocoele)
- Biliary atresia/choledochal cysts
- Congenital pulmonary airway malformations
- Vascular anomalies
- Trauma and Critical Care
- Ventilator management
- Total parenteral nutrition management
- Pressor management
- Vascular
- Lymphatic disease
- Ability to do the following procedures
- Ultrasound or CT-guided needle biopsy
Equipment used
- Minimally invasive surgery (MIS)
- Harmonic scalpel
- Other energy sealing devices
- Vacuum assisted closure device
- Temporary abdominal wound closure
- Synthetic or biologic patches/mesh
- Dermatome
- Mesher
- Stimulator for anorectal malformation (ARM) procedures
- CT
- MRI
- Ultrasound
- Central venous catheters
- Mechanical ventilators
- Total parental nutrition (TPN)
