Kuwait: Kuwait’s Jaber Al-Ahmad Medical institution has performed over 100 robot-assisted surgical procedures, a determine this is forecast to surge to 200 by way of the top of this 12 months, stated the hospital’s best surgeon on Saturday.

The scientific procedures principally encompassed weight problems, colon, belly wall, hernia and bladder operations, Dr. Sulaiman Al-Mazidi, head of Jaber Al-Ahmad Medical institution’s surgical procedure division, stated in a press observation.

He boasted that his surgical division is the one unit in Kuwait to make use of endoscopies and robots in surgical operations, in keeping with the good enhance of the Well being Ministry.

“This accomplishment is going in tandem with the Well being Ministry’s imaginative and prescient aiming at overhauling the well being gadget in Kuwait and providing the sector’s prominent and highest handle voters,” he stated.

For his section, Dr. Maher Al-Chaar, Co-Scientific Director of Bariatric Surgical procedure at St. Luke’s College Medical institution in Pennsylvania, stated he got here to Kuwait as a visiting physician in an effort to carry out some robot-assisted difficult surgical procedures.