Pediatric Surgery
Pediatric surgery department in HMS Al Garhoud hospitaloffers high-standard care and up-to-date service for surgical problems in children from the first day of life to the age of 13.
HMS Al Garhoud Hospital has the best pediatric surgeon in Dubai. Our Pediatric Surgeons work closely with the Pediatric and Neonatology Department to provide comprehensive care to infants, children, and adolescents up to 13 years of age. Our department is fully equipped with the latest techniques to ensure your loved ones get the proper treatment including diagnosis, consultation, management, and follow-up care throughout the pre-operative and postoperative management of surgical problems by our highly experienced medical team.
At HMS Al Garhoud, our 24/7 covering for pediatric surgical services includes:
- Laparoscopic appendectomy
- Treatment of torsion testis
- Non-surgical treatment of intussusception
- Irreducible hernias
- Other pediatric surgical emergencies
- Fetal & Neonatal Surgery: Working closely with the Gynecologist and Obstetricians, our consultants may detect defective organs before birth. Parents will be given full support to understand the most suitable surgery suitable for their child after birth. This can include removing obstructions or repairing organs that have not formed properly.
- Digestive Complaints: This includes all problems related to digestion, from oral surgery for tongue ties or cysts to problems with the stomach, intestines, appendix, or anus. We can also treat gastric reflux
- Hernias: All types such as hernias of the abdominal wall (inguinal, umbilical …) and intra-abdominal.
- Gallbladder and Pancreas: Surgical treatment for jaundice, stones, tumors, and cysts as well as removal of the gallbladder.
- Genital Complaints: Circumcision, abnormal penile shape and size, undescended or absent testis, female genital abnormalities in children, abnormally developed or wrongly formed genital organs.
- Urinary Complaints: Urinary infection, correction of abnormal openings of urinary tracts, Urinary reflux, urinary obstruction, and dilatation of kidneys and collecting system.
- Thyroid, salivary glands, or cysts in the neck.
This service included daily outpatient clinic for diagnosis, management, and follow-up of other pediatric surgical cases like:
- Tongue tie (ankyloglossia)
- Circumcision, and redo circumcision
- Inguinal hernia
- Undescended testis
- Umbilical hernia
- Hypospadias surgery
- Neurogenic bladder
- Chronic constipation
Early diagnosis and intervention for neonatal surgical problems like:
- Esophageal atresia
- Diaphragmatic hernia
- Neonatal intestinal obstruction
- Anorectal malformations
- Hirschsprung’s disease
- Neonatal hydronephrosis
