Dr Chopdat Contact Details

Dr Nazeer Ahmed Ismail Chopdat is a gastroenterologist and specialist physician with rooms at Ahmed Kathrada Private Hospital, a Lenmed group facility. The contact details below come from Lenmed’s own doctor directory.

Official contact channels

Rooms: 087 087 8632
Rooms, alternative line: 011 852 4437. Lenmed publishes both under Tel, and the second is the number carried in the structured practice data on the same page.
Lenmed head office: 087 087 0600, for group-level matters rather than appointments.

A note on the email address. Lenmed’s profile page publishes what appear to be the doctor’s personal gmail and yahoo addresses. Those are not reproduced here. Personal mailboxes are not practice channels: they are not monitored by reception, they are not covered when the doctor is on leave, and sending medical information or an identity document to one carries a real privacy risk. Book and send documents through the rooms telephone above and use whatever address the practice gives you directly.

What this organisation provides

Gastroenterology – conditions of the digestive tract, including reflux, ulcers, inflammatory bowel disease, coeliac disease, irritable bowel syndrome and gastrointestinal bleeding.
Hepatology is listed as a special interest – liver disease, including hepatitis, fatty liver and cirrhosis.
Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, which in this speciality means gastroscopy and colonoscopy. These are usually done as day procedures at the hospital rather than in the rooms, and they need scheme pre-authorisation.
Also registered as a physician in internal medicine, so the practice covers general adult medical problems as well as the gastrointestinal sub-speciality.
Qualifications published by Lenmed: MBBCh, University of the Witwatersrand; FCP (SA), College of Physicians of South Africa; Certificate in Gastroenterology (SA).

Persistent change in bowel habit, difficulty swallowing, unexplained weight loss, vomiting blood or blood in the stool are the symptoms that should not wait for a routine appointment slot. Say so when you phone, because practices triage by symptom.

Address and operating information

Suite D6, Block D, Ahmed Kathrada Private Hospital
Lenmed does not publish the hospital street address on the doctor profile. Its hospital finder carries the full address and the hospital switchboard, and the rooms can give directions.
Consulting hours are not published. Specialist rooms run by appointment during weekday business hours; procedure lists are usually booked on separate days.
Lenmed does not publish HPCSA registration numbers in its doctor directory. To confirm that a practitioner is registered and in good standing, contact the Health Professions Council on 012 389 9300.

One caution when reading the Lenmed site: the footer lists every hospital in the group with its own telephone number. Those belong to other hospitals in other provinces, so do not take a number from the footer and treat it as this practice.

Support and escalation routes

Bring a referral letter, your medicine list and any previous endoscopy or scan reports. Repeat procedures are unpleasant and expensive, and previous reports often prevent one.
Endoscopy and colonoscopy need pre-authorisation from your medical scheme, obtained before the date. An unauthorised procedure can leave you liable for the whole account.
Several digestive conditions are Prescribed Minimum Benefits, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis on the chronic disease list, which a scheme must fund even when day-to-day benefits are exhausted.
Scheme disputes and PMB refusals go to the Council for Medical Schemes after the scheme’s internal appeal.
Complaints about professional conduct or standard of care go to the Health Professions Council of South Africa on 012 389 9300.
Complaints about the hospital rather than the specialist go to Ahmed Kathrada Private Hospital and then to Lenmed. Specialists bill separately from the hospital account.

Sources

Lenmed doctor directory profile for Dr N A I Chopdat, lenmed.co.za, read 4 September 2026 – speciality, special interests, qualifications, suite address, both published telephone numbers and the Lenmed head office number.
HPCSA published switchboard number, hpcsa.co.za.