On the morning of March 27, a group of eager onlookers gathered around a robot and a computer screen at a convention centre in Mumbai. Among them was Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
They watched as a doctor, wearing polarised 3D glasses, manoeuvred two arms of the robot.
The patient, though, was 800 km away.
Suryabhan Sambharkar lay in Nagpur’s Government Medical College, with a second robot and its multiple arms docked on his lower body.
It began to operate on Sambharkar’s hernia, getting its directions via the internet from the robot in Mumbai.
The robotic arms operated for about 40 minutes. Then, the doctor stopped and rose. He had made a point – that robots could be used for telesurgery.
A team of doctors in Nagpur took over and finished the surgery, without the help of the robot.
“The robot was specially arranged to showcase the telesurgery,” said Dr Raj Gajbhiye, dean at the Government Medical College.
The robot in Mumbai had been supplied for the medical conference by Meril, an Indian multinational company that develops surgical robotic systems, and was an associate partner for the event.
“I had not heard of robotic surgery before this,” 52-year-old Sambharkar, who works at a cloth store and earns Rs 10,000 per month, told...
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