Robotic Surgery Future in Northeast Possible?

No doubt in aboard robotic surgery commence in major medical platforms to minimize error chances during surgery. The process could be fast but quite expensive. But are Indians here in  Northeast  ready to rely on machine regulated surgery? In India's metros many complex procedures for minimally invasive surgery are eased out through Robotic Surgical System to enable shorter recovery of the patient.

Question is if any technical error occurs can it analyze like human brain and take the initiative to confront the situation successfully? Now there is a point to ponder on what people of Northeast view. It is just not the cost but perfection in surgery is more counted. So in-order to avoid fault from such expensive robotic surgery, still robotic technology has not been implemented in hospitals of Northeast. Except for one GNRC, Assam which more than one year back took the bold initiative to highlight on such technology in Northeast. In 2014 the International Robotic Surgery Conference and Surgical Workshop known as ROBO Meet were conducted successfully by GNRC team.  This multidisciplinary international meet on Robotic Surgery was conducted at Dispur, Guwahati.

The venue was held at GNRC Hospital, Guwahati where live surgeries were conducted including endoscopic workshop. In entire Northeast, it was first in Assam such world class  Surgical Workshop was conducted where even international expert and specialized surgeons participated to present live demo on Robotic Surgery. Overwhelmed with crowd's positive response, NRC CMD of GNRC Hospital Dr. N.C. Borah. stated, "There was an overwhelming response from large scale surgical specialties from entire North-east India."

Today, in India's major cities there are more than handful of expert surgeons with clinical and technical abilities to process successful open surgery in greater precision with micro incisions. This micro incisions technique avoids greater blood loss of the patient to enable faster recovery. Minimizes recovery period and so as  patients cost through such sophisticated surgical technology. There are above 600 cases of robotic surgery in India that covers a wider spectrum without any limitation to a particular field. In Northeast, Assam GNRC Hospital still yet to install state-of-the-art Robotic Technology. It is important that a hospital should have latest medical facilities and professional expertise before implementing Robotic Surgical System (Key Hole Surgery ) for Minimally Invasive Surgery.  Still many miles to go cover up all sections of robotic surgeries like thoracic, urology, gynecology, gastrointestinal, vascular, laproscopic and minimal access surgery in Assam, Northeast.