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Positive response to same day surgery, discharge: Apollo Health

March 27, 2013
A senior official said on Wednesday that healthcare chain Apollo Hospitals group will wait and watch the performance at its first Apollo Day Surgery outlet in Chennai before going for network expansion. ‘We are looking at the …

State hospital in Tripura to offer robotic surgery

December 21, 2012
A state-run hospital and medical college in Tripura is set to introduce robotic surgery for safer and painless operations. The technique will soon be made available at Govind Ballabh Pant Medical College and Hospital in …

Robotic surgery changes Tanzanian girl’s life

July 7, 2012
  Robotic surgery has changed the life of a seven-year-old girl , Tanzania resident. Ashura Ibrahim, from Dar-e-islam , suffered a crushed urethra after a tragic road accident in her home town. She was subjected to …

Mumbai’s Kokilaben Ambani hospital to perform robotic surgeries

June 12, 2012
After Sir Ganga Ram hospital in Delhi the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute is set to follow suit by introducing the da Vinci robotic surgery system. Inaugurated by an eminent doctor, Suresh …

Robotic surgeries – the future of complicated procedures?

October 3, 2012
Four finger-tip sized incisions, four robotic arms, including a camera eye snaking inside, the magnified image of the visceral organs being watched on a screen outside as the surgical instrument arm moves deftly to remove the …

Da Vinci Si surgical system could herald a new era of high precision, minimally invasive vascular surgeries!

April 21, 2012
It was a tough choice for 20-year old Haya Fatima to make: choose between a surgery and exams in the same month. Luckily, she didn't have to choose. Thanks to advanced robotic surgery, the Lucknow girl was operated by a …