Robotic surgery to be launched in Shimla's Indira Gandhi hospital: CM

The Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) and Hospital, Shimla, will soon have the facility of robotic surgery. The modern surgical technology has already been introduced in the super specialty hospital at Chamiyana in Shimla and Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College and Hospital at Tanda in Kangra district, said Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu while chairing a meeting of the Health Department here last evening.

He said that the state government was providing state-of-the-art machinery to the hospital to provide the best medical care to people. He added that there would be a three-month trial for robotic and elective surgery at the IGMC and further changes, if required, would be made accordingly.

Sukhu issued directions for starting robotic surgery for gynaecology patients. He said that surgeons from the Kamla Nehru Hospital (KNH) would also perform elective surgeries in the IGMC so that women patients could benefit. He added that 40 beds would be allotted in the IGMC, Shimla, for robotic surgery on the women patients of the KNH.

He said that a diagnostic laboratory was being set up at the IGMC and Rs 25 crore had been released for the purpose. After test starts at the IGMC, gynaecologists from the KNH would also be facilitated in treating women patients as they would be able to get accurate test reports.