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King Fahd Medical City, represented by the Urology Department, recently, Riyadh - Muhammad Al-Ghanami opened a robotic clinic, which works to prepare and educate urology patients with robotic operations. Dr. Nahar Al-Azmi, Executive Director of Medical Affairs, said that the opening of the robotic operations clinic comes as an extension of the city''s endeavor to introduce the latest medical technologies to advance the development of services for patients, as part of its relentless endeavor to improve treatment services in line with international quality standards in this field, indicating that the technology Robot operations are one of the modern global technologies that are characterized by high accuracy and treat sensitive places that are difficult to reach by traditional methods.
For his part, Dr. Maher Moazin, Head of the Urology Department, stated that the clinic is based on guiding and educating patients who need delicate surgery in the urinary tract, using a robot device and explaining the methods used to treat these cases.
On the advantages of the robot over the traditional methods, Muezzin stated that the robot device used is three-dimensional, equipped with small holes, and a camera that enlarges the image twenty times, which helps in reaching hard-to-reach places in the human body, explaining that it is characterized by extreme accuracy when determining the location of the operation wound compared to With traditional surgical methods.
He added: "The surgical robot device is used for prostatectomy for malignant and benign diseases, ureteral surgery and transplantation, treatment of congenital diseases in the ureter, urinary bladder problems, complete or partial resection of the bladder, benign and malignant kidney tumors, congenital obstruction, treatment of congenital abnormalities in the kidney pelvis, eradication of tumors. Uterine fibrosis, benign and malignant ovarian tumors, urinary fistula, lymphadenectomy, and bladder replacement with part of the intestine.
The head of the urology department stated that performing the operations using a surgical robot helps to locate the "wound" with high accuracy, and thus reduces its size, which helps complete its healing in less time and thus reduces the patient''s stay in the hospital.
