Could you throw some light on the MAS department in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital?
Founded in 1996, the department of Minimal Access Surgery in our hospital has the credit of being listed in the Guiness Book of Records, 1997 and in the Limca Book of Records, 2000-2001 for performing the maximum number of minimally accessive surgeries. We are planning to build a tele-surgery, a virtual reality and a tele-robotic centre in the near future. What are the advantages of MAS when compared to open surgery? MAS is supposed to be a state-of-the-art surgical procedure for a variety of diseases including hernia, gall bladder problems, uterus disorders etc. In MAS usually images are shown on the television monitor. These images being two dimensional, it becomes difficult for the surgeon to perform an in- depth surgery. In order to compensate for the missing dimension proper training to the surgeon becomes all the more important. You can compare open surgery with driving a car and laparoscopic surgery with flying an aircraft. While driving a car you are in a stable position whereb
