India?s first robotic surgery at Escorts

India will soon join a select band of countries that have performed surgery with robots. The country?s first robotic urological surgery will be done on May 1 at Escorts Hospital in Delhi.

India will soon join a select band of countries that have performed surgery with robots. The country’s first robotic urological surgery will be done on May 1 at Escorts Hospital in Delhi.

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The operation will be telecast live for surgeons who are participating in the MASCON-2005 conference at the Choithram Hospital and Research Centre in Indore.

Conference organiser Dr Amitabh Goel and Dr Vandana Bansal said that robots helped doctors make smaller incisions and perform complex operations with greater motion control. Robotic surgery has many advantages. One is faster recovery as patients can be discharged from hospital after only about 24 hours.