Central India’s First Robotic Surgery Facility Opens at AIIMS Raipur

On Saturday, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Raipur inaugurated the first robotic surgery system in Central India. The presence of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai who officially opened the facility called Dev Hast in the government health institution marked this historic moment.

High Tech Revolutionizing Surgery

The new robotic surgery system, equipped with the state-of-the-art da Vinci Xi Surgical System, is designed to help surgeons perform minimally invasive procedures with greater precision and safety. This advanced technology will enable patients to have shorter recovery periods, reduced pain and extended stays in the hospital.

Chief Minister Sai personally performed the first dry lab dissection to usher in this milestone, highlighting the significance of this development. He said, "this robotic surgery system will benefit not only the people of Chhattisgarh but also patients from neighbouring states seeking expert care at AIIMS Raipur.”

The system opens a new era in the public healthcare in the region, making high-tech treatment more convenient and prompt.

An Academic Medical Center

Besides treating patients, the facility will be an academic center of excellence. It contains the latest simulation platforms such as SimNow, which offers graduate and postgraduate and resident doctors with the practical training and research experience in robotic assisted surgeries. The preliminary areas of surgeries are Urology, General Surgery, ENT, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Lt. Gen. (Retd.) The Executive Director of AIIMS Raipur, Dr. Ashok Jindal, owed a debt of gratitude to the government and made it a point to note that the robotic surgery program is geared towards empowering the patient to the fullest and creating future-surgical experts.

Reforms on the way to improved healthcare infrastructure

Another development announced by Chief Minister Sai was the construction of an all equipped parijan niwas at AIIMS Raipur to house relatives of patients around the state and beyond. He bragged about the healthcare development of Chhattisgarh, how the state had grown one medical college to 15 in the time since its establishment.

Moreover, the state is determined to provide world-class healthcare by establishing a 5,000-bed super-specialty Medicity in Nava Raipur.

The Importance of this to Central Indian Patients 

In the years before the introduction of “Dev Hast", patients requiring robotic surgeries were forced to commute to metro cities in order to seek medical care. This facility has now taken affordable and advanced medical services nearer to the house and hence the families are not overwhelmed, and high quality is now offered in the region.