Dr. Milind Chitnis is an Associate Professor and head of the department of Paediatric Surgery at the Frere and Cecilia Makiwane Hospitals, affiliated to the Walter Sisulu University in East London in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

He has been the Honorary Secretary- The College of Paediatric Surgeons of South Africa (2020-2023) and a board member of the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (2020-2027).