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Embrace emerging surgical technologies, First Lady urges medics

NAIROBI, KENYA: First Lady Margaret Kenyatta has urged medics to embrace emerging advanced surgical technologies that involve smaller amounts of anesthesia and retain patients for shorter periods. 

She said medical procedures that make less intrusion into the human body – especially in gynaecology – such as minimal access surgery have the advantages of shorter hospital stays, quicker recovery and early return to work. 

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