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M'SIA: PMCM BREAKS NEW GROUND WITH ROBOTIC SURGERY
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 (Bernama) -- The Prince Court Medical Centre,
Malaysia's newest private healthcare facility, is breaking new ground with robotic surgery through a robotic surgical system, its Medical Director, Prof Dr Cyril D. Toma, said Thursday.
The robotic surgical system consists of a computer-mediated workstation with a high quality video-display and hand-input devices, a wire network to communicate the surgeon's movements and a cart bearing the system's robotic arms.
"The robotic system has great advantages. The robotic arms position and
hold the video camera with greater accuracy and steadiness than any human
being could," he told reporters at a media launch and live robotic surgery at
the centre here.
With the robotic system, he said, the surgeon was seated comfortably
instead
of standing beside patients, reducing stress and fatigue, a critical factor
during long procedures.
Prof Toma said the medical centre offered world-class breast cancer
service and the latest bladeless lasik eye centre which would commence on Oct 1.
It also offered a comprehensive range of medical services housed under five
centres of excellence (CoE) -- Heart and Lung; Urology, Nephrology and Men's
Health; Women and Children; Plastic Surgery, Cosmetology, Dermatology and Burns,
and Oncology.
The centre's chief executive officer, Stuart D. Rowley, said the centre
aimed to raise the standard of quality healthcare available in the country and
to set the benchmark for international medical best practices for Malaysia and
Asia.
"All our initiatives are implemented with the global aim of becoming the
best private hospital in Asia within the next five years," he said, adding that
it targeted a rati o of 70 per cent Malaysians to 30 per cent
medical tourists.
The centre, a 300-bedded private medical facility located in the heart of
Kuala Lumpur, was opened in 2007 and is supported by an international management
team and the medical expertise of senior clinical specialists from the Medical
University of Vienna (MUV-Austria).
-- BERNAMA
Malaysia's newest private healthcare facility, is breaking new ground with robotic surgery through a robotic surgical system, its Medical Director, Prof Dr Cyril D. Toma, said Thursday.
The robotic surgical system consists of a computer-mediated workstation with a high quality video-display and hand-input devices, a wire network to communicate the surgeon's movements and a cart bearing the system's robotic arms.
"The robotic system has great advantages. The robotic arms position and
hold the video camera with greater accuracy and steadiness than any human
being could," he told reporters at a media launch and live robotic surgery at
the centre here.
With the robotic system, he said, the surgeon was seated comfortably
instead
of standing beside patients, reducing stress and fatigue, a critical factor
during long procedures.
Prof Toma said the medical centre offered world-class breast cancer
service and the latest bladeless lasik eye centre which would commence on Oct 1.
It also offered a comprehensive range of medical services housed under five
centres of excellence (CoE) -- Heart and Lung; Urology, Nephrology and Men's
Health; Women and Children; Plastic Surgery, Cosmetology, Dermatology and Burns,
and Oncology.
The centre's chief executive officer, Stuart D. Rowley, said the centre
aimed to raise the standard of quality healthcare available in the country and
to set the benchmark for international medical best practices for Malaysia and
Asia.
"All our initiatives are implemented with the global aim of becoming the
best private hospital in Asia within the next five years," he said, adding that
it targeted a rati o of 70 per cent Malaysians to 30 per cent
medical tourists.
The centre, a 300-bedded private medical facility located in the heart of
Kuala Lumpur, was opened in 2007 and is supported by an international management
team and the medical expertise of senior clinical specialists from the Medical
University of Vienna (MUV-Austria).
-- BERNAMA
