42 young Indian robotic surgeons set to share path-breaking procedures

As robotic surgeries, slowly but steadily, become mainstream in India, US-based Vattikuti Foundation is organising a key seminar here next month where young robotic surgeons from across the country will share their path-breaking procedures.

India has a need for a huge pool of orthopaedic surgery super-specialists who can handle the special needs of over 10 million children with physical deformities.

Specialist orthopaedic surgeons who can treat limb and spine problems can provide a better quality of life to afflicted children who form a startling 2.2 per cent of India’s young from newborns to 18-year-olds.

“India has approximately 100 paediatric orthopaedic surgeons which translates to a caseload of 5 million cases per surgeon,” according to Dr Ashok K Johari, an eminent paediatric orthopaedic surgeon.

It is well known that if congenital deformities are corrected early, “a child can be given the chance to live a better life. It is easier to conduct surgeries on a child by modifying the growth of the affected part,” added Dr Johari, who is also the President of the International Federation of Paediatric Societies.

Dr Johari will be in conversation with urology surgeon Dr Mahendra Bhandari, CEO of Vattikuti Foundation, on June 11 at a session with specialist surgeons who earned a one-year Vattikuti Foundation Fellowship to become accomplished robotic surgeons.

The Vattikuti Foundation has provided 51 young Indian surgeons year-long fellowships to study robotic surgery under the guidance of mentor surgeons.