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SSI Mantra

January 31 , 2025 10 hrs 0 min 24 0
  • In a first doctors in India use the tele-robotic system to do two heart surgeries in Jaipur.
  • It is India’s indigenous surgical robotic system, SSI Mantra.
  • It has successfully conducted two robotic cardiac surgeries via telesurgery over a distance of 286 km (SSI’s robotics control in Gurugram and another at the Manipal Hospital in Jaipur).
  • Both were cardiac surgeries - Internal Mammary Artery Harvesting procedure and Robotic Beating Heart Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass (TECAB).
  • It is a first in the world.
  • The SSI Mantra 3 Surgical Robotic System is the only robotic system in the world to have received regulatory approval for telesurgery and tele-proctoring.
  • It was approved by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO).
  • The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) is under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India.

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