A doctor in China conducted surgery on a patient 5,000 km away. The surgeon along with his colleagues at Shanghai Chest Hospital carried out a remote operation and removed a lung tumor using a domestically-made 5G surgical robot.

While the surgeon was in Shanghai, the patient and the surgical robot were in Kashgar of Xinjiang Autonomous Region (far West of China), which is approximately 5,000 km away.

Dr Luo Qingquan from Shanghai Chest Hospital, the leading surgeon of the operation, said that success of this operation using surgical robot technology reflects how patients can enjoy high-end medical services in their hometown instead of moving to big cities like Beijing and Shanghai.

According to Shanghai Daily, the hospital is the nation's first medical facility carrying out robot-assisted surgery on the chest, and it is also the facility carrying out the largest quantity of such surgery in China.

Source: India Today

Image: Shanghai Chest Hospital