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The D e p a r t m ent of Thoracic Surgery at Fort i s H ospi t al is dedicated to the prevention, early
diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest. We continue to expand treatment options for AILMENTS & TREATMENTS
patients, utilizing minimally-invasive procedures, including video-assisted thoracic surgery Airway injuries & Narrowing (Stenosis)
(VATS), and robotic-assisted technology.
Airway Stenting

Benign Esophageal Diseases

Benign Lung Diseases

Bronchogenic Cysts Chest Wall Tumours

Diseases of the Diaphragm

Esophageal Cancer Hyperhidrosis

Lung and Pleural Infections Lung Cancer

Mediastinal masses and Tumours

Mediastinoscopy Myasthenia Gravis

Pleural Diseases

Retrosternal Goitre & Ectopic Parathyroid

Glands

Robotic Surgery Surgery for Emphysema

Our surgeons provide state-of-the-art surgical techniques and cancer therapies, with a major

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 focus in research of early diagnosis, better cancer staging, and prediction of recurrent disease in Thymoma VATS
lung and esophageal cancer. We take a multi-disciplinary approach to the treatment lung cancer,
esophageal cancer, and other diseases of the chest, so we can streamline the patient experience
with all thoracic specialists at Fortis. CONNECT WITH US

All surgeons are full time staff members at Fortis Flt Lt Rajan Dhall Hospital, Vasant Kunj in New
Delhi but also provide full time surgical services at Escorts Hospital, Okhla, and Fortis Hospitals
at NOIDA, Shalimar Bagh, Karol Bagh and Greater Kailash in New Delhi. They are :

Dr Sabyasachi Bal, Director

Dr A Chaudhry, Consultant
Binant Kaur / Jatin Arora Physiotherapists

All p a t i ent s hav e access t o a t e a m of expert s from m a n y different fields including

specialists from surgery, pul m onary medicine, critical care and u l t r am ode rn radiology.

About Dr S Bal MS (AIIMS),DNB, FRCS

Dr S Bal is the Director of the department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Surgical Oncology
and is assisted by Dr Rakesh Kumar and Dr LM Darlong, both consultants with considerable
surgical experience and expertise and a team of dedicated surgical intensivists and
pulmonologists, anaesthesiologists, paramedical personnel and physiotherapists.

Dr Bal, is an alumnus of AIIMS, New Delhi and was, till 2005, an Additional Professor of
Surgery and Consultant Thoracic Surgery and Chief of the Lung Cancer and other thoracic
malignancies Clinic at his alma mater, the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
New Delhi.
He is a former fellow of the internationally renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre
at New York and a Senior Registrar at the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital, London.
He has trained in Thoracic surgery in AIIMS, New Delhi and in the UK at the South West

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 Regional Thoracic Surgery Unit at Bristol and at
the Brompton Chest Hospital, London. He has
been a clinical research fellow at University of
Leicester, UK in Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
for Emphysema; which he has pioneered in
India.
Dr Bal is also one of the pioneers in diagnostic
and therapeutic thoracoscopic procedures and
today, the department gets referrals from all
over North, East and North-East India. He is a
member of many surgical societies in India,
USA, UK and Japan and has numerous peer
reviewed scientific publications and awards to Dr S Bal MS (AIIMS) ,DNB, FRCS
his credit including the Norman Tanner Best
Paper Award (Royal Society of Medicine, UK), the Japanese Surgical Society Award in 1996 &
1997, the Varoon Mahajan Fellowship of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New
York, USA, the Escorts Raj Nanda Pulmonary Fellowship to Glenfield Hospital, University of
Leicester, UK and the Best Paper Award of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology in
2002.

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