First Lady Margaret Kenyatta: Embrace advanced surgical technologies

Dr. Gladwell Kiarie (right in spectacles) shows a model of the cancer centre to first lady Margaret Kenyatta during a groundbreaking ceremony of Tesla Cancer Hospital at Ridgeways taken on 18th August 2015. PHOTO:WILBERFORCE OKWIRI

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 are less intrusive on the human body – especially in gynaecology – such as minimal access surgery, have the advantage of shorter hospital stays, quicker recovery and early return to work.“The overall acceptance of laparoscopic surgery the world over is testament to its greater advantages and it should be encouraged at all levels,” said the First Lady during the 3rd African Conference of the International Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (ISGE) at Carnivore in Nairobi.