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.