• Efforts on to bring Robotic Surgeries under the Tamil Nadu CM Health Insurance Scheme: Minister Ma. Subramanian

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    Efforts on to bring Robotic Surgeries under the Tamil Nadu CM Health Insurance Scheme: Minister Ma. Subramanian

    The Minister claimed that the use of innovative medical technologies was leading the way in both public and commercial hospitals like SIMS in Tamil Nadu. color:#252525">

    color:#252525">Digital Desk: Including robotic procedures under the Chief
    Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme is something Tamil Nadu's
    government will examine, according to Minister for Health and Family Welfare
    Ma. Subramanian on Wednesday (CMCHIS).



    color:#252525">He claimed that by introducing modern robotic technology at SRM
    Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) Hospital, the underprivileged might gain
    access to cutting-edge innovations like robotic surgery.



    color:#252525">He stated that Chief Minister M.K. Stalin would be contacted
    about the plan to include robotic surgeries under the CMCHIS. The first robotic
    device to be deployed in an Indian state-run hospital was at Tamil Nadu
    Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital earlier this year. He claimed that
    69 people had benefited from it.



    color:#252525">The Minister claimed that the use of innovative medical
    technologies was leading the way in both public and commercial hospitals like
    SIMS in Tamil Nadu. "I have inaugurated robotic technology at three
    private hospitals in Chennai in the last year alone," he remarked.



    color:#252525">The newly installed robotic equipment will offer more accuracy,
    improved precision, dexterity, and expanded flexibility, coupled with safety
    and control, according to Ravi Pachamuthu, chairman of SRM Group.



    color:#252525">The next-generation robotic equipment now being used at the
    hospital, according to Patta Radhakrishnan, director and senior consultant at
    the Institute of Gastroenterology, Hepatobiliary Science and Transplantation at
    SIMS Hospital, will not only shorten the recovery time of the patients but
    also enhance their quality of life.