SriLanka, Oct. 21 -- Two patients at Kings Hospital Colombo underwent surgery yesterday while their surgeons operated remotely from New Delhi more than 3,000 km away, marking Sri Lanka's first two robotic telesurgeries.

Prof. Srinath Chandrasekera and Prof. Bawantha Gamage performed the procedures using a robotic surgical system linked across borders through high-speed communication networks. The achievement places Sri Lanka among a select group of nations that have demonstrated cross-border robotic telesurgery. Specialist surgeons were present in Colombo alongside the patients throughout both operations, ready to intervene immediately if any clinical or technical difficulty arose.

Both procedures were completed remotely without requiri...