Surgical robots are used in hospitals in VietnamA report found that 4,000 surgical machines were used in the world in 2016 which served 750,000 operations. Most of the surgical robots are made by one company – Intuitive Surgical, which received a license from the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000. However, surgical robots cannot ensure 100 percent success. Having been used in the US since 2000, robots were used in 1.7 million operations in the country, with 144 deaths reported, as of 2013. Doctors at Binh Dan Hospital in HCM City in August 2017 performed the country’s first robotic surgery on a liver cancer patient.

Source: VietNamNet News February 15, 2018 01:30 UTC