Kapila, a graduate of Christian Medical College Vellore, arrived in the United Kingdom in 1962 and joined the National Health Service.
[2] After completing her surgical exams, she was appointed to the Royal London Hospital, where she tried paediatric surgery for the first time.
[1] Her early research considered the complications that could result from circumcision, and whether patients were being exposed to an unnecessary operation.
[3] She was appointed Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Women in Surgical Training committee.
[5] In 2008 the Royal College of Surgeons of England commissioned a portrait of Kapila by Jane Brettle.