China surgeon removes patient's lung tumour from 5,000 km away. Watch

In a significant medical development, a facility in China has successfully conducted an operation where the surgeon was located 5,000 kilometres away from the patient.

Utilising advanced technology and extensive research, a team of doctors enabled a colleague to remotely operate a machine from Shanghai to remove a lung tumour from a patient in Kashgar. The procedure, which lasted an hour, was recorded and shared on social media, quickly gaining widespread attention.

Naresh Nambisan, an X user, shared the video stating, "A surgeon in China successfully removed a lung tumor from a patient while being 5000 km away. The doctor operated the machine remotely from his office in Shanghai, while the patient was in Kashgar, located on the opposite side of the country. The entire operation was completed in an hour."

The video of the operation has garnered over 700,000 views with many users expressing their amazement and admiration for the technological and medical breakthrough.

One user commented, "Remote Robotic minimal access surgery is the future trend. And it is already here. Medical science has progressed so much, yet we do not know many things in the human body. That is how medical science gradually progresses."