On Saturday, March 16, in the Chinese city of Sanya, a surgeon performed remote brain surgery on a patient using a 5G network. The patient was at a distance of 3,000 km from the surgeon during the operation, reports the CGTN portal.
The operation was performed by Dr. Ling Zhipei of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital in Hainan. The procedure took about three hours. The doctor controlled the operation with a 5G computer.
First, Lin connected to screens installed in the operating room of a patient with Parkinson's disease. By manipulating surgical instruments with micron precision on a computer, the surgeon inserted a chip into the patient's brain to stimulate the brain.
He noted that the use of 5G technology during the operation made it possible to operate in real time without video freezing and delays in remote control.
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This is not the first operation by Chinese doctors using 5G technology. A week earlier, a complex operation was performed on the liver of a patient located at a distance of 2,200 km from the surgeon at a hospital in Shenzhen.
The operation was too difficult for local doctors, so they turned to a renowned surgeon from Beijing for help. Thanks to the large bandwidth and high reliability of 5G internet transmission, the doctor was able to successfully perform the surgery in real time.