India, May 30 -- A medical marvel was witnessed in Hyderabad as a woman underwent a surgery performed by a doctor 3,900 kilometres away from her in China's Wuhan. The rare but successful surgery was performed by Indian urologist Dr Syed Mohammad Ghouse, a senior urologist at Hyderabad's Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology (AINU) who was in Wuhan at the time.

The 57-year-old woman, who was diagnosed with ureteric obstruction, underwent a robotics-assisted tele-surgery from Wuhan, and a video of the procedure was shared by news agency PTI.

Dr Ghouse was in Wuhan at the time to attend a conference, but that didn't stop him from conducting the surgery. A human aide was placed next to the patient in Hyderabad for efficient communicatio...