Robots are making women's pelvic surgery faster, gentler and mesh-free in east London

At Queen's Hospital, surgeons Yemi Coker and Roopa Nair have completed five robotic urogynaecology operations — among the first in the UK — treating conditions such as prolapse, incontinence and pelvic floor injury. Operations that once took up to four hours can now take as little as one, through smaller, more precise incisions that shorten recovery. Professor Cosima Brucker travelled from Germany to coach the team, and the robot has also given the surgeons a non-mesh alternative for prolapse surgery — a safer option many patients have been waiting for.

SDG 3 · Good health and well-being — Mechanism: tech innovation