FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Questions patients ask most often about the clinic, the procedures performed, and what recovery involves.
01 Clinic
Clinic questions
Answers reflect general clinical guidance. Your own plan depends on examination, imaging and your individual circumstances.
In three cities. The main clinic is Room C-15, Third Floor, Khattak Medical Center, Dabgari Garden, Peshawar, Monday to Friday from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM. He also consults in Lahore on Saturday and in Islamabad on Sunday, both from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
Send a WhatsApp message to the clinic. Appointments are confirmed for a specific city and day, so it helps to say which location suits you.
MBBS from Peshawar, FCPS in General Surgery, a Clinical Fellowship in Laparoscopic Surgery from CMH Rawalpindi, FCPS-II Thoracic Surgery at CMH Rawalpindi, and CHPE. He practices as an Expert Laser Proctologist alongside general, laparoscopic and thoracic surgery.
No. New patients are welcome with or without a referral from another doctor. If you have previous reports, scans or endoscopy results, bring them — they usually save a repeat test.
Any previous prescriptions, ultrasound or CT reports, endoscopy results and blood tests. A list of the medicines you currently take is genuinely useful, particularly blood thinners.
02 Laser proctology
Piles, fissure and fistula questions
Answers reflect general clinical guidance. Your own plan depends on examination, imaging and your individual circumstances.
Discomfort varies between patients and depends on the procedure performed. You will be told what to expect and what pain relief to take before you leave the clinic.
That depends on the treatment performed, the extent of the piles and your own recovery. You will be given advice specific to your case at your follow-up.
They can. The procedure treats the piles you have; it does not change the constipation, straining or prolonged sitting that produced them. Keeping the stool soft is what protects the result.
An acute fissure often will, with stool softeners, a high-fiber diet, sitz baths and a topical sphincter relaxant. A fissure lasting more than six to eight weeks is unlikely to heal on medication alone and should be assessed.
That is exactly the concern that laser closure is designed to address. Working inside the tract means the sphincter muscle is not divided, which is the main cause of continence problems after conventional fistulotomy.
No, and this matters. Bleeding that is dark, mixed through the stool, or comes with weight loss or a change in bowel habit needs investigation rather than treatment for hemorrhoids. Examination comes first.
03 General surgery
Laparoscopic and general surgery questions
Answers reflect general clinical guidance. Your own plan depends on examination, imaging and your individual circumstances.
Keyhole surgery. A camera and instruments are passed through incisions of five to twelve millimetres instead of one long cut. It gives less pain, a shorter hospital stay, fewer wound problems and a faster return to work.
Not reliably. Medication dissolves only certain small stones, works slowly, and the stones usually return, because it is the diseased gallbladder that forms them. For stones causing symptoms, removing the gallbladder is the definitive treatment.
No. The liver carries on producing bile, which drains straight into the intestine. Some people find very fatty meals loosen the bowels for a few weeks, and that usually settles.
No. The defect in the abdominal wall does not close by itself and hernias tend to enlarge over time. Surgery is the only definitive treatment.
When it becomes suddenly painful and hard and cannot be pushed back in, particularly with vomiting. That suggests the contents have become trapped and it needs immediate attention.
No. Most breast lumps, especially in younger women, are benign. What every lump does need is triple assessment — examination, imaging and a needle biopsy — before it is either removed or dismissed.
04 Thoracic
Chest and thoracic surgery questions
Answers reflect general clinical guidance. Your own plan depends on examination, imaging and your individual circumstances.
The organs and structures of the chest: the lungs and airways, the pleural space around the lungs, the bony chest wall, the diaphragm, and the esophagus. It is a distinct specialty from cardiac surgery.
Only at the earliest stage. Once pus has collected it must be drained, and once it has organized into a thick fibrous peel around the lung it needs surgical decortication to let the lung re-expand.
Most people can, provided the remaining lung function is adequate — which is what the lung function tests before surgery establish. Some breathlessness on hard exertion is expected after a large resection.
Yes. Tuberculosis leaves behind trapped lungs, thickened pleura and empyema cavities, and surgery for those is a significant part of the thoracic workload in this region.
No. Most reflux is well controlled with medication and lifestyle changes. Surgery is considered when that stops working, when the hernia is large, or when you would rather not take medication indefinitely.
Because food sticking, especially if it has progressed from solids to soft food to liquids, is the classic presentation of an esophageal tumor. It is also the symptom most often put down to indigestion for months. It needs an endoscopy.
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