Cairo’s Qasr El-Aini Hospital – a public hospital affiliated with Cairo University – has started using a robot to perform advanced surgeries for patients with renal failure disease, the Cairo University president announced.

The robot, worth EGP 45 million (approximately $2.3 million), is the first to provide services free of charge at the university hospital, Mohamed Othman Elkhosht, president of Cairo University, wrote on his Facebook page, on Friday.

“The robotic surgery provides an opportunity to hundreds of thousands of patients, especially for the treatment of unpostponable tumor cases,” Elkhosht added.

The hospital is keeping abreast of the latest developments in oncology surgery, he added, noting that the Qasr El-Aini Hospital treats more than a thousand patients with cancer and kidney tumors annually.

In October 2021, Ain Shams Specialised Hospital announced its first robotic surgery, performing three gallbladder removal operations.

In June 2020 during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Egyptian engineer Mahmoud Al-Koumi introduced a prototype of an Egypt-made robot called Cira-03.

It was tried at private isolation hospital in Egypt’s Nile Delta city of Tanta to help facilitate communication with patients.

Equipped with a camera and a microphone, the humanoid robot was created to carry out several medical procedures, including taking blood tests and temperatures as well as display the results to patients on a screen attached to its chest.

Source: State Information Service Egypt