Groote Schuur Hospital holding robotic surgery week ‘for women, by women’

John Maytham speaks with Dr Lamees Ras, Project lead Women’s Week Robotic Surgery at  Groote Schuur Hospital.

Listen to the interview in the audio below.

Groote Schuur Hospital is celebrating the final week of women’s month in a special way.

They will be holding a robotic surgery week using the state-of-the-art Da Vinci surgical robot.

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The Robotic Surgery Week will feature 10 complex procedures, including gynaecological, urological, and colorectal surgeries.

This technology enables minimally invasive surgeries, which reduces pain to the patient and speed up their recovery.

Ras says they are specifically operating on women and all the surgeries will be done by women.

“Fortunately, at Groote Schuur we are not short of women surgeons.”

- Dr Lamees Ras, Project lead Women’s Week Robotic Surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital

“We thought in Women’s month let's highlight the fact that women can do it for women.” 

- Dr Lamees Ras, Project lead Women’s Week Robotic Surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital

She says these robotic surgeries, or keyhole surgeries, give the surgeon better access and visualisation.

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