Prokar Dasgupta performs UK’s first remote robotic surgery

Dasgupta carried out the prostatectomy in real time through telesurgery using the Toumai Robotic System.

Indian-born British surgeon Prokar Dasgupta / Wikipedia

Indian-born British surgeon Prokar Dasgupta has performed the United Kingdom’s first-ever long-distance robot-assisted prostate surgery on a patient located 1,500 miles (2,400 km) away in Gibraltar.

Dasgupta carried out the prostatectomy, a removal of the prostate gland, in real time through telesurgery using the Toumai Robotic System, in a collaboration between The London Clinic and the Gibraltar Health Authority.

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