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Dr. Rupesh Mehta

Dr. Rupesh Mehta

Senior Consultant Gastro Surgeon

Double FRCS FICS FACG

Dr. Rupesh Mehta is a Senior Consultant Gastro Surgeon at Mehta Hospital, Ahmedabad, and has been active in surgical practice since 1979.

After a brilliant academic career with several gold medals, including one for his final MS degree, he went to London, earned the prestigious Double FRCS, and returned to Ahmedabad to pioneer many modern surgical procedures. He also holds FICS and FACG fellowships from the U.S.A.

Mehta Hospital, started in 1987, was the first single-speciality Gastro Surgery hospital in Gujarat in the corporate format, with its own radiology, pathology, chemist and ICU facilities. Dr. Mehta is fondly known as 'The Father of Gastro Surgery' in Gujarat, having trained almost a hundred doctors to become surgeons.

Dr. Rupesh Mehta - Pioneering Work in Gastroenterology

  • 1979 Pioneer of modern fibre optic gastroscopy in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
  • 1980 First to perform colonoscopy in Gujarat.
  • 1981 First to perform diagnostic laparoscopy in Gujarat.
  • 1982 Brought fibre optic ERCP techniques to Gujarat after training in Japan, and started the Department of Gastro Surgery at V.S. Hospital, Ahmedabad.
  • 1988 First surgeon in India (and South Asia) to bring in a lithotriptor for gall bladder stones.
  • 2015 Elected President of the Indian Chapter of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA).

Former Head of Department of Surgical Gastroenterology at Sheth V.S. General Hospital, he devoted over 30 years to honorary service for poor and needy patients. Even today, he remains active and performs several endoscopic procedures every week. He is also associated with SAL Hospital, Shalby Hospital, HCG Hospital and Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad.

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Gastroenterologist Services Ahmedabad

Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery

Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery

All Advanced Laparoscopic GI Surgeries.

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Surgeries of Special Interest

Surgeries of Special Interest

Surgery for Portal Hypertension specially end to side Leino-Renal Shunt.

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