By 2020 India may have 200 robots doing 25,000 surgeries
28-Nov-17, ET Healthworld
The Vattikuti Foundation's founder Raj Vattikuti says eighty percent of prostate surgeries are now done using robotic surgery. "Surgeons have the confidence that this is the best technology... We have 360 surgeons today doing robotic surgery and they just love it."
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"When we started, we had only nine robots. Today by the end of the year we will have close to 70. By 2020 we may have close to 200 robots doing about 25,000 surgeries. It is a lot of opportunity because India has tremendous surgical talent."