The Department of Anaesthesia has state of the art teaching facilities meant to equip learners with all the necessary skills required in this field.

This has been one of the oldest thematic units within the department of general surgery but it became a fully fledged department on 17th June, 2013 .  The first academic member of staff was Professor Emmanuel Ayim who was appointed in 1972 as a senior lecturer and with the support of the British government through the british council lecturers from Britain were sent to this section on a 2 yearly contractual rotation to assist in training and teaching students but this arrangement was terminated in 1980.