General Surgery Ward III

The Third Ward of General Surgery covers specialties including gastrointestinal surgery, bariatric and metabolic surgery, biliary surgery, hernia and abdominal wall surgery, and surgery for perianal diseases. It is an authorized doctoral and master’s degree-granting unit, a specialist physician training base and a standardized resident physician training base recognized by the Ministry of Health, and has been approved by the Hernia Development Research Institute as the first “National Standardized Education Base for Abdominal Wall Hernia” in China. In 2011, it obtained qualification accreditation from the Asian Weight Loss Center. It is a national committee member unit of the Thyroid and Metabolic Surgery Group of the Surgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the unit of the Chairperson of the Professional Committee of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery of the Heilongjiang Provincial Medical Doctor Association, and the unit of the Group Leader of the Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Group of the Medical Robotics Branch of the Heilongjiang Provincial Medical Association.

The department is at the forefront of the field of minimally invasive surgery in the province. Under the leadership of Director Liu Chang, the team performs da Vinci robotic and laparoscopic surgeries covering almost all areas of general surgery, with particular expertise in minimally invasive radical surgery for gastric cancer and colorectal cancer, minimally invasive total colectomy for the treatment of slow-transit constipation, pancreaticoduodenectomy, laparoscopic splenectomy, laparoscopic combined with choledochoscopy cholecystectomy, common bile duct stone extraction and primary closure, laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, abdominal wall incisional hernia repair, and parastomal hernia repair. The department also began to standardize the performance of da Vinci robotic bariatric and metabolic surgery relatively early in the province for the treatment of obesity and metabolic diseases, achieving good clinical outcomes. The department features minimally invasive techniques and advocates the concept of enhanced recovery. Its surgeries involve minimal trauma, rapid recovery, short hospital stays, and good cosmetic outcomes.