Health Minister: “We are keen on developing robotic surgery services”

Minister of Health (MoH) Dr. Ahmad Al-Awadi affirmed Saturday keenness on developing medical services in the robotic surgery field to raise quality, improve performance and reduce side effects.

This came in a statement made by Al-Awadi on inaugurating the first conference of robotic surgery aiming to support scientific progress, share expertise, develop information and upgrade medical system.

The Ministry carried out 800 robotic surgeries, 300 of which were performed during the last three years, he said.

He expressed his sincere appreciation to the committee responsible for preparing and organizing the conference, stressing the need to continue scientific and knowledge development to serve the country and citizens.

Meanwhile, Dr. Suleiman Mazeedi, head of surgery department at Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital, said in a similar statement, that surgical robot is the future of microsurgery in the world, indicating that Kuwait will have about 10 devices of surgical robots in the next five years due to their great importance.

Mazeedi noted that the surgical robot facilitates operations for the surgeon to reach some parts of the body that are uneasy for doctors to get them through the regular endoscope.

He said the robot also helps perform operations that are uneasy to be conducted by laparoscopically or even by opening.

The conference aims to gather all surgical specialties, which use robots, with the aim of coordinating among surgeons, share and transfer expertise, unify efforts and work to carry out more robotic surgeries, he stated.

Source: Kuwait News Agency