Robots are controlled by surgeons and do not operate on their own: Dr Al-Ghanim
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 26, (KUNA):
Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital announced successfully conducting the first kidney
incision operation using a robot.
The hospital had previously
operated six times on patients using the robot to treat medical cases including
obesity, urinary tract diseases, colon, general surgery and others, said head
of the genito-urinary surgery department, Dr Saad Al-Dousari in a statement on
Saturday.
Kuwait started using robots in
operations in February 2014 in Sabah Al-Ahmad Urology Center, conducting over
300 operations since then, he said.
On his part, senior urology
specialist Dr Mohammad Al-Ghanim said robot operations allow patients to leave
the hospital within 48 hours, and back to their normal life fast.
Moreover, he noted that robots
can reach body organs that doctors find hard to reach and don’t leave surgery
wounds that require a long time to heal.
The robots are controlled by
surgeons and do not operate on their own, said Dr Al-Ghanim, adding that they
only create a less than 1 cm opening in patients for the operation.