The Department of Surgery started functioning from the foundation day of the college in 1961, with Prof. Pritam Das, the then Principal as Professor and Head of the department of Surgery and Dr B.C Mukurjee as Reader. In 1963, the first batch of students, one of whom would laterbecome the head of the same department, reached the clinical teaching stage, at the SRN Hospital premises. Dr ND Tahiliani MS, FRCS joined as lecturer and Dr BD Sharma MS,FRCS as Reader in Surgery .Two other units namely ENT and Orthopedics were started with newly appointed lecturers, Dr SR Singh MS,DLO, and Dr R C Gupta MS (Surgery) ,MS (Ortho) .

The first batch of MS (Gen Surgery) post graduate students got their honors in 1965, and soon the department acquired its eminence on the map of Northern India as an institute and department of quality. In 1967, Prof. Harold Rodgers of Queen’s College, Belfast came as visiting Professor, sharing his experiences and contributing to further development of the department.

Experimental Surgery Research Station was added and by 1975 the department was the only one, among all medical colleges in U.P to be upgraded and renamed as Post Graduate department of Surgery. It was in the same year that Prof. Pritam Das retired and Prof.Y.P Naithani took over the reins of this now blossoming department. In this aforesaid period Dr P.K Basu, Dr C.K Gupta, Dr SC Agarwal worked for brief periods imbibing the essence of this premier department, to later move on to Gorakhpur, Agra and Jhansi as respective heads of the department of Surgery.

The department expanded further with Dr D K Mittal and Dr A K Gupta as Reader and Dr N.K Keswani and Dr N.K Mehdiratta as lecturers. Dr. R.C Kesarwani as lecturer and Dr J.K Mishra as lecturer CTVS Surgery and Dr H.Rahman as pediatric surgeon joined in 1976.This heralded the period of Superspecialisation in General Surgery. The department was further consolidated with the joining of Dr D.R Singh and Dr SC Atri, as lecturers in Surgery, and Dr Tatsat Mishra as a Plastic Surgeon.

In terms of Staff and Post graduate admissions, it was the biggest department of the college and its progress in surgical education gained from strength to strength and was admirably complimented by MCI Inspectors on record, for both under graduate and post graduate education. In 1987 the department spread its wings further with the appointment of 3 lecturers in the Surgical Superspecialities of Neurosurgery, Urology and Cardiothoracic Surgery namely Dr S.P.S Chauhan, Dr S.P Tandon and Dr Shekhar Tandon respectively. The department was at its peak during this time, under the able headship of Prof. N.D Tahiliani. From the period of 1987 till the end of the century, no further appointments were made in the department as in other departments and colleges of the state.

In 2000, the department was given a further boost with the joining of Dr Vikas Sachdeva MS, MCh as CTVS Surgeon, Dr Dilip Chaurasia MS MCh as Urosurgeon. Dr Nitya Nand Gopal MS,MCh as Neuro Surgeon and Dr Probal Neogi MS,FRCS and Dr Shabi Ahmad MS as general Surgeons. Surgical admissions and operations picked up again with the addition of newly acquired technology in Endourology, Endoscopic Neurosurgery, Thoracic Surgery and Laparoscopic Surgery.

Since then, till present time further additions were made in the department with the joining of consultants namely Dr Sidharth,MS,MCh, Dr V.K Pandey MS, Dr Mohit Jain MS,MCh,Dr Vaibhav Srivastava, Dr Anil Kr Saroj, Dr Dinesh Kumar, Dr Jitendra Kumar, Dr Raj Kumar, Dr Sanjay Singh, Dr Mayank Singh, Dr Rahul Singh and Dr R.J Siddiqui. In the last 2 years the department was actively pursuing National programme of No Scalpal Vasectomy. The Trauma Centre was started in the SRN campus, wherein further addition of staff was done. This fully staffed department has been gaining strength under the able guidance of Prof. S P S Chauhan as is evident from the increased patient turn over and provision of highly specialized and advanced surgeries on a day to day basis.