DR. DEVI PRASAD SHETTY, Founder & Chairman, Narayana Health, which revolutionised heart surgeries by substantially bringing down costs, says robots are set to perform simpler surgeries in a few years, giving a huge boost to specialised care in remote areas.
But why is robotic surgery good for the patient? With small key-hole incision, minimal dissection, loss of only a few drops of blood, and little pain, one can walk out of the hospital the same day and get back to work in two-three days. Also, the risk of Within the next seven to 10 years, if surgeons do not offer robotic surgery as an option, patients will choose a surgeon who will. Ultimately, it is not a question of what is good for me and you but what is good for the patient.India needs 65 million surgeries a year. At present, only 26 million are being done. The main reason is lack of skilled surgeons. The Association of Surgeons of India has only 18,000-plus surgeons as members. India needs 65,000 surgeons to serve its 1.3-billion population. With improvement in technology and reduction in prices, it is a matter of time before robotic surgery is available across the world and across the country.
Our government should encourage robotic surgery by removing very high import duty on surgical robots and accessories that can run into crores. Also, major grants should be given to ISRO, DRDO, IITs and other recognised private research institutions to develop indigenous surgical robots. Our country is blessed with most talented software/hardware engineers, scientists amd mathematicians who can create indigenous robots in a matter of time. Thanks to our government’s effort to reform medical education, it is a matter of time before we have adequate number of doctors, medical specialists, nurses amd paramedics.
With advancing technologies, which will become ubiquitous in the near future, it is a matter of time before India becomes the first country in the world to dissociate high-tech health care from affluence.
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