No more going abroad: Cyprus public hospitals now offer robotic knee and hip surgery

Cyprus’s public health system has taken on robotic-assisted orthopaedic surgery for the first time, with the State Health Services Organisation (SHSO) installing the CORI Robotic-Assisted Surgery system by Smith+Nephew at Nicosia General Hospital.

The system, now operational at the hospital’s Orthopaedic Clinic, enables robotic-assisted unicompartmental and total knee arthroplasty, revision knee surgery, and hip arthroplasty within the public health system. The SHSO said the development means...