Pastor Alexander Idachama has become the first patient to undergo robotic-assisted surgery at Redeemer’s Health Village Hospital, Redemption City, Ogun State, following a radical prostatectomy performed with the assistance of surgical robotics.
The procedure was carried out recently at the hospital in partnership with US-based RoboMed Global Inc., with Prof. Obi Ekwenna-Davis, co-founder of RoboMed Global, and local physicians, including Dr Ifeanyi, leading the surgical team.
The development has also seen Redeemer’s Health Village and RoboMed Global perform what was described as West Africa’s first 500km telerobotic surgery, in which surgeons at the Ogun State facility remotely operated on a patient with a kidney tumour in Abuja.
PUNCH Online on Friday reported that he spoke about his experience in a social media post monitored by Church Times and published September 22 after the operation.
Idachama said he learnt about the hospital through its Chief Executive Officer, Dr Adedamola Dada, and
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