Delhi hospital conducts life-saving robotic surgeries

India Gazette (IANS) Friday 20th April, 2012

It was a tough choice for 20-year old Haya Fatima to make: choose between a surgery and exams in the same month.

Thanks to advanced robotic surgery, the Lucknow girl was operated by a high-precisioned robot for a complicated medical condition and discharged within 48 hours, doctors at a Delhi hospital said here Friday.

Said to be Asia's first robotic surgery for diseased blood vessels, the engineering student is among 30 patients to be operated in the first month of Gangaram Hospital's Institute for Robotic Surgery (IRS) in the capital.

"I had been told by a hospital back home that the only option I had was an open surgery - which might even leave me on ventilator or with scars all over my body. The mental burden was such that I felt it was better to have survived with the disease than to go for that mode of surgery," Fatima, who did not know about the option of robot surgery, told IANS.

Suffering from Myasthenia Gravis for 3 years, the medical disorder left Fatima weak and exhausted as the body muscles were affected. It was at a routine consultation at the Delhi hospital that Fatima prepared her mind for robotic surgery in a short span of four hours.

The silver lining: a robot conducts the surgery proving to be minimally invasive and quick healing, say experts.

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