Doctors of Binh Dan Hospital perform (Photo Courtesy of the Binh Dan Hospital)HCM City (VNA) – in HCM City’s District 3 has
put into operation a robotic surgery facility, the first of its kind in Vietnam.
Ten adult patients received robotic
surgery at the hospital as of December 10.
Director of the hospital Dr Tran Vinh
Hung said that the hospital started to use robots to assist its doctors to
perform surgeries among adult patients in November this year in order to
improve quality and reduce the number of Vietnamese patients going overseas for
examination and treatment.
The hospital is suggesting that the
Ministry of Health approve the advanced technology in the list of insurance
covered medical techniques.
It is providing free surgery to the first
40 patients, Hung said.
At the hospital, the robotic surgery
is performed for cancers of the stomach, colon/rectum, liver, pancreas, lung,
prostate, and eight other diseases.
Robots have been used to assist
laparoscopic surgery in many countries in the world, such as the US, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, since 1980.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
