Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: The AIIMS, Delhi, has inaugurated a state-of-the-art surgical robotics training facility at the SET – skill, e-learning and telemedicine facility – of the institute.
The inauguration of the facility places the institute once again on the global map as AIIMS, New Delhi is the only government-funded medical institution to offer simulation-based robotics training in this part of the world.
This is a public-private partnership between the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and India Medtronic Private Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Medtronic plc.
The partnership brings together novel technology and decades of surgical expertise at the AIIMS, New Delhi to train surgeons nationwide and expand access to the benefits of the Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS).
Conceptualised and set up under the leadership and vision of Dr M Srinivas, Director, AIIMS-New Delhi, the centre will provide surgeons with best-in-class training in robotic-assisted surgeries, an AIIMS official said on May 3.
The RAS is an emerging medical technology that can help standardise surgical procedures and enable surgeons to perform complex surgeries.