Dr. Harshal Thaker
Consultant Intensivist
Critical Care
MBBS, MD (Medicine), IDCC, IFCC (Critical Care), CCIDC
Read MoreAdvanced intensive care in Ahmedabad — 24×7 ICU care for serious illness, post-surgical, cardiac, stroke and respiratory emergencies, sepsis and multi-organ failure.


Expert Care When Life Hangs in the BalanceICU · Post-surgical · Cardiac & stroke · Sepsis & organ failure
24×7Intensivist-Led ICU
1teamMultidisciplinary Critical Care
75+ICU Beds
15+Specialists
When illness or injury becomes life-threatening, the intensive care unit is where the fight for life is fought — hour by hour, with the closest monitoring and the most advanced support medicine can offer. The Department of Critical Care at SAL Hospital, Ahmedabad provides 24×7 intensivist-led intensive care for the most seriously ill patients.
From patients recovering from major surgery to those facing cardiac, stroke or respiratory emergencies, sepsis or multi-organ failure, our critical care team brings together expertise, technology and unwavering vigilance when it matters most — a trusted centre for ICU and critical care in Ahmedabad.
Critical care is medicine at its most intense — where a patient’s condition can change by the minute, and where expert judgement, constant monitoring and advanced life support work together to pull people back from the edge. It is a specialty in its own right, and our intensivists are dedicated experts in it.
Our intensive care units are equipped with advanced monitoring and life-support technology and staffed around the clock by a specialised critical care team. As a hospital with substantial ICU capacity in Ahmedabad, including dedicated intensive care beds, we are equipped to care for the most serious illnesses and emergencies.
Our critical care team manages the whole spectrum of life-threatening illness — serious illness needing ICU care, recovery after major surgery, cardiac and circulatory emergencies, and brain and stroke critical care — each demanding a different expertise, all available under one team.
Expert intensive care across the full spectrum of life-threatening illness — a trusted centre for critical care in Ahmedabad.
In critical illness, outcomes depend on expertise, speed and constant vigilance. Our intensivist-led ICUs provide all three — specialised critical care doctors leading the team, advanced life support at hand, and round-the-clock monitoring that catches problems the moment they arise.
Because critical care draws on every specialty in the hospital — cardiology, neurology, pulmonology, surgery — our patients benefit from a truly multidisciplinary team, all focused on bringing them safely through.
Some of the hardest battles in medicine are fought in intensive care — against sepsis, the body’s overwhelming response to infection, and multi-organ failure, where several vital systems fail at once. These demand the fastest, most expert care, combining advanced support for each failing organ with relentless monitoring.
Our critical care team is built for exactly these situations. With intensivists leading, every relevant specialty involved, and advanced life support available around the clock, we give the most seriously ill patients the best possible chance — and we care for their families with honesty and compassion through the most frightening moments of their lives.
Patients and referring doctors across the region come to SAL for:
It means our intensive care units are led by intensivists — doctors who specialise in critical care medicine. This dedicated expertise, available around the clock, is associated with better outcomes for critically ill patients.
The full range of life-threatening illness — serious infections and sepsis, recovery from major surgery, heart and circulatory emergencies, strokes and brain conditions, severe breathing problems, and multi-organ failure.
Yes. Critical illness does not follow a schedule, so our ICUs are staffed and monitored 24×7 by a specialised critical care team, with advanced life support always at hand.
Sepsis is the body’s overwhelming, life-threatening response to an infection, which can rapidly cause organs to fail. It is a true emergency requiring immediate, expert intensive care — which our team is equipped to provide.
We understand critical illness is frightening for families. Our team communicates honestly and compassionately, keeping families informed and supported through what is often the most difficult time of their lives.
Consultant Intensivist
Critical Care
MBBS, MD (Medicine), IDCC, IFCC (Critical Care), CCIDC
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