Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Health Ministry develops Indonesian Robotic Surgery Center at Hasan Sadikin Hospital (RSHS), Bandung, West Java, and Dr Sardjito Public Hospital, Yogyakarta, to facilitate the development of remote surgery service.
"Robotic project is a multi-year project aims to improve health service access and quality for unreachable regions in Indonesia," the Ministry's Pharmacy and Health Equipment Industry Resiliency Special Staff Laksono Trisnantoro noted.
"The strategy involves utilizing Robotic Telesurgery as part of the telemedicine program," he said in a written statement on Sunday morning. The facility came from the business matching initiation at Health Business Forum which created the 2021-2024 Robotic Telesurgery multi-year and multi-stakeholders project design.
"After knowledge and technological transfer access was given, domestic industry is capable of producing the equipments and their spare parts domestically with adequate Domestic Component Level (TKDN)," he remarked.
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The project not only has economic value, it also has educational value. "Robotic surgery training curriculum will be certified and accredited so that in the future, robotic surgery expertise will be recommended to be included in surgeon specialist education curriculum in Indonesia," Trisnantoro said.
Ministry develops robotic surgery center two hospitals
Screenshot of Robotic Remote Surgery Seminar held by the Ministry on Tuesday (June 14, 2022). (ANTARA/HO-Kemenkes/FR).
