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Imagine it: you’re wheeled into the operating theatre for surgery and discover that it won’t be a surgeon who’ll wield the scalpel but rather a huge robot with four arms.
Sounds like the stuff of science fiction, yet this is exactly what’s on the cards at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
Other hospitals around the world have been using robots to perform surgery for years and, with the arrival of a state-of-the-art R38-million Da Vinci Xi robot, which was developed in the US, Groote Schuur has become the first public hospital in Africa to offer robot-assisted surgery.
