A team of surgeons at a hospital trust are celebrating performing their 1,000th prostatectomy using robotic surgeries.

Dr. Jaime Songco, chairman of the Department of Surgery, said MakatiMed’s adoption of the Da Vinci Xi Robotic Surgical System represents a significant enhancement to surgical capabilities in the ...

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It comes as the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) received a £2m Da Vinci Xi robot, which it said would boost their robotic procedures by more than 440 to 1,300 a year.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been using the Da Vinci Xi robotic system for complete or partial prostate removals since 2017. Surgeons at Chorley and South Ribble ...