Wuhan to Hyderabad: Inside the 3,000-KM Tele-Robotic Ureteric Surgery Revolution
Tele-robotic ureteric surgery between Wuhan and Hyderabad across 3,000 km marks a breakthrough in remote robotic healthcare. On May 18, 2026, something big happened in the world of medicine. A doctor did a hard operation from far away. This operation was a robot-assisted ureteral reimplantation. It was done by Dr. Syed Mohammed Ghouse. He is the Director of Robotic and Minimal Access Urological Surgery at the Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology in Hyderabad. Dr. Syed Mohammed Ghouse did this operation from a hospital in China. He was at Tongji Hospital on Jiefang Boulevard in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The patient he operated on was in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. This operation took 90 minutes to complete. It was a deal because the doctor and the patient were about 3,900 kilometers apart. This operation was shown during a medical meeting in China. The meeting was the Congress of the Chinese Chapter of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association. It was started by C...