Aragon will have five robots to perform surgical interventions in hospital centers in the three provinces. The first of these high-tech devices is already working at the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza and It has been used to perform 250 operations in the last year. In November a new device will be installed at the Clinical Hospital and it is expected that In the first half of 2025, two more will come into operation in the San Jorge de Huesca and the Royo Villanova, in Zaragoza.. In the next phase, this technology It will also reach Bishop Polanco of Teruel, currently in the expansion phase and will be operational at the end of next year.
Carlos Antón Tomey, director of the Center for Integrated Management of Corporate Projects and in charge of robotic surgery in Aragón, explained on the program Buenos Días, on Aragón Radio, that High-precision surgery “involves a learning curve for professionals”. Currently, There are seven Servetus surgeons who use this technology and they are already training those who will take care of the devices that will begin to operate in other hospital centers.
The operations carried out in Servet with the Da Vinci robot focus on five areas: urology, general and digestive surgery, gynecology, thoracic and otorhinolaryngology. Antón Tomey has explained that The demand of professionals is that the learning time be shortened: “It’s our thorn in the side.” He has also stressed that it is important to expand the number of professionals and provide them with all the tools to use this technology. For Antón Tomey, this training can also be “a challenge and an attraction for surgeons.”
robotic surgery improves image and depth when carrying out a surgical intervention. Allows access to difficult to access areas and bleeding is minimal; also scars are reducedwhich are millimeters, and recovery time of the patient.
The president of Aragón, Jorge Azcón, announced last Thursday that the regional Executive will acquire robotic surgery equipment for the San Jorge, the Royo Villanova and the Obispo Polanco that They will involve an investment of 7 million euros. Two pieces of equipment will be installed at the San Jorge Hospital in Huesca and the Royo Villanova Hospital, which will cost 2.9 million euros and could be working, as Antón Tomey has pointed out, “in the first half of 2025.” Before, in November, the second of these surgical teams will be installed at the Zaragoza Clinical Hospital.
