More than 100 robotic surgeries were performed in the City of Health. The public health system, through the Social Security Fund (CSS), has achieved significant achievements during this 2023, through novel and complex surgeries that have marked milestones in Panamanian medicine.

The first pediatric closed-heart surgeries stand out; the parkinson pioneers in the region, carried out in Aguadulce; kyphoplasty in Colón, those of cochlear implant with state-of-the-art technology and studies that allow to determine possible hereditary cancer, among others.

In addition, the arrival of nuclear medicine in the interior of the country and the first endoscopic ear surgery in the “Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid” Hospital Complex.

The national executive director of Health Services and Benefits of the CSS, Dr. Yelkys Gill, highlighted, among other achievements, the more than 100 robotic surgeries in the City of Health.

We have performed robotic surgeries in gynecology, urology and patients diagnosed with uterine cancer. When these surgeries are performed and at home in the afternoon, the patients tell us that they have no shape or words to be grateful to be with their family, he explained.

He stressed that the state-of-the-art technology used by CSS in its different hospital units has made it possible to perform innovative procedures, not only in Panama, but in the region.

Also, we perform intrauteral surgeries of spina bifida and that impacts, because these children, before, had to be born and wait two or three years for an intervention, and with this new technology the child is born with better quality of life, thanks to the innovation and quality of our professionals, he stressed.