The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has performed yet another first-of-its-kind keyhole surgery, this time on the colon of a cancer patient.
The GPH in a release yesterday, announced that it had advanced its provision of surgical care by performing first-of-a-kind minimally invasive laparoscopic surgeries. The statement went on to explain that historically, most abdominal surgeries have been done using a long incision (cut) on the abdomen. However, over the last several decades, especially in more developed countries, many of these surgeries have been done laparoscopically, otherwise known as keyhole surgery. This involves the use of three or four small (1cm) incisions through which the surgical instruments are placed to perform the surgery as the surgeon sees the operative field via a video monitor.
