KARACHI – Pakistan has achieved a milestone to perform a successful roboticsurgical procedure, performed on a female patient in Karachi.
The OT Complex Civil Hospital Karachi and the Sindh Institute of Urologyand Transplantation (SIUT) witnessed Pakistan’s first robotic surgery onthe concluding day of the three-day international multidisciplinary roboticsurgery workshop.
The procedure, called hysterectomy, was performed on a woman withintractable bleeding acquiring multiple transfusions. The uterus of the55-year-old patient, hailing from Balochistan, was removed. She will bedischarged after 24 hours.
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Prof Shamim Khan of the King’s College London and Dr Kankipati Shanti Rajufrom Guys and St Thomas Hospitals London performed the robotic surgeryprocedure along with a team of support staff.
