It is Eastern India’s pioneer and leading brand in the field of laparoscopic surgery. Department of general & laparoscopic surgery is also accredited for 3 years post graduate DNB course in general surgery. Harmonic Scalpel (USA) for bloodless surgery was installed at Shija Hospitals for the 1st time in Asia in 1997. The department has performed more than 25,000 successful key-hole surgeries till date and still counting. Surgeries are performed by eminent AMASI (Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India) faculties. It is one of the very few centers in the world to perform ERCP and Cholecystectomy in the same sitting. It is the first centre in the state to perform laparoscopic pancreatic tumour removal. It is also the first centre in North Eastern India to perform laparoscopic choledochal cyst removal. It is the most comprehensive treatment centre for piles, fissure in ano, fistula in ano, rectal polyp, rectal prolapse, colon cancer, pain and bleeding per rectum and 1st in Eastern India to introduce non operative and less invasive treatment solutions for piles like Cryo surgery, IRC, Rubber band ligation, Injection sclerotherapy, LASER, Doppler Guided Haemorrhoidal Artery Ligation (DGHAL), Stapling surgery, Transanal suture rectopexy (TASR).