SHANGHAI , Oct. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- October 24 , 2024, MicroPort ® MedBot TM (HKSE:2252) announced that the company successfully completed 6 robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy procedures in the Republic of Angola . The surgical cases were performed by Dr.
Vipul Patel , a world-renowned robotic urologist surgeon for his contributions to the field of robotic-assisted surgery and one of the most experienced robotic surgeons in the world having personally performed over 18,000 robotic prostatectomies, and his surgical team based out of the Global Robotics Institute at AdVent Health in Celebration, Florida , in the United States of America . The urology surgeries were performed at Complexo Hospitalar de Doenças Cardio-Pulmonar Cardeal Dom Alexandre do Nascimento (Cardeal) which is located in the city of Luanda and has been established as a national health reference center for Angola . From these 6 successful surgical cases and for the first time in the sub-Sahara Africa region, two of the cases were performed remotely using Toumai TM 's telesurgery capability.
Robotic telesurgery, also known as remote surgery, is a surgical procedure where a surgeon performs an operation on a patient remotely using a robot and telecom networking. For these telesurgery cases, the master robotic console and remote console were located in separate sites at the Cardeal hospital campus with the connection between the master and remote consoles utilizing only Toumai TM 's telesurg.