Kings Hospital Achieves Sri Lanka’s First Cross-Border Robotic Telesurgeries 📈

• Key Breakthrough: Kings Hospital Colombo successfully facilitated Sri Lanka’s first two robotic telesurgeries, with surgeons operating remotely from New Delhi, India—over 3,000 km away. • Procedure Details: • Performed by Prof. Srinath Chandrasekera and Prof. Bawantha Gamage using cross-border high-speed networks. • On-site specialist surgeons remained present in Colombo; both procedures were completed fully remotely without requiring manual local intervention. • Strategic Impact & Healthcare Future: • Places Sri Lanka in an elite group of nations with cross-border telesurgery capabilities. • Enhances regional equity by enabling distant specialists to treat patients in provincial hospitals without regional travel. • Connects the healthcare and medical tourism sectors to overseas surgical expertise, reducing the need for citizens to seek care abroad. • Expands local surgical training, international collaborations, and builds on Kings Hospital's prior milestone in robotic cardiac surgery. • Adoption Requirements: Broad national scaling will require ultra-reliable communication infrastructure, specialized regional hospital equipment, technical training, and updated regulatory protocols.