The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) and the Sindh government have established the First Robotic Surgery Unit at Sukkur.
The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) and the Sindh government have established the First Robotic Surgery Unit at Sukkur.
The centre of excellence in robotic surgery was inaugurated on Saturday by the Sindh Health Minister, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho at the SIUT Chablani Medical Centre, Sukkur.
Speaking on the occasion, the health minister said, “It is a great honour for me to be here with my mentor and my teacher “Prof. Adib Rizvi”.
She said, “We are making efforts to improve health services in Sindh and provide a state-of-the-art Robotic Surgery facility at the doorsteps of patients. Our MNAs and MPAs are here to provide full support to SIUT.”
Robotic surgery can be used to treat conditions affecting your heart, digestive system, bladder, prostate and more. Benefits include less blood loss, shorter hospital stays and quicker recovery. Surgeons who have performed a high volume of these procedures typically deliver optimal outcomes.
Because it is less invasive and more precise, robotic surgery offers several patient benefits when compared to traditional open surgery. These include: Smaller incisions. Lower risk of infection.
The robotic arms, which can rotate 360 degrees, enable surgical instruments to be moved with greater precision, flexibility and range of motion than in standard minimally invasive laparoscopy. Most procedures take two to three hours under general anesthesia.
There are several types of pain associated with robotic surgery: incisional port site pain, pain from the peritoneum being distended with carbon dioxide, visceral pain, and shoulder tip pain.
In general, the robotic surgeries are significantly longer than their counterparts. While an hour might not make a difference, for complex oncology cases, a robotic surgery might take 14 hours compared to the 8 hours for laparoscopic surgery or 6 hours for open surgery.
Surgeons who use the robotic system find that for many procedures it enhances precision, flexibility and control during the operation and allows them to better see the site, compared with traditional techniques.
Earlier, SIUT as a first public sector hospital opened its own robot facility along with 3-dimensional laparoscopic unit to provide state of the art and best surgical facilities to its patients. The robot is in process of being installed.
The first robotic surgery unit was started with the help of country’s well known philanthropist Mr Bashir Dawood who donated an amount of Rs 450 million to establish the robotic surgery unit. The Unit is dedicated in the memory of late Kassim Parekh a renewed banker and close family friend of Dawood family.