He went to the emergency department at the QEII hospital in Halifax thinking he had kidney stones. (QEII Foundation)"It's this big robot with multiple arms and it's making noise and it's moving," he said. The da Vinci Robot performed its first surgery in Halifax in February 2019. Just one month after the shutdown, robot surgeries got the all-clear to restart treating cancer patients. da Vinci not a permanent QEII resident just yetRendon said the robot could help allow surgeries to continue if the province faces a second wave of the coronavirus or shuts down, but the da Vinci Robot still isn't a permanent fixture in the QEII.

Source: CBC News July 22, 2020 09:00 UTC