Pune: Like private hospitals, Sassoon General Hospital will also undergo robot surgeries. This is the first time the administration in Sassoon has purchased a robot. From next month, some of the surgeries will be done by robots.

Primarily, surgeries related to prostate gland cancer, kidney transplant, adrenaline glands and esophagus will be performed by robots.

Sassoon has become the first government hospital in the state to have a robot facility in the hospitals of other government medical colleges in the state.

In private hospitals, robot surgery costs lakhs of rupees. Such surgery can be done free of cost in Sassoon. Recently purchased robots are equipped with many tools. The robot will reduce bleeding during surgery. In addition, the patient may recover quickly after surgery.

This robot is Indian made. Special training will be imparted to doctors to handle advanced technology of surgery through robots, said Sassoon Hospital Dean Dr Eknath Pawar.

The head of the surgery department of Sassoon. Anant Bidkar said that this is an advanced technique and surgeons control the process through computers.

Robots can carry tools to any part of the body. The surgeon has only two hands. There is a limit to the movement of the wrists.

Robots can work a total of three to five hands simultaneously and more efficiently. Last year, doctors in the orthopaedic department performed knee surgery on an experimental basis in Sassoon.