Call for programmes to teach key-hole surgery in Pakistan
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Prominent surgeons and health experts have urged the government, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan (CPSP) and major medical educational institutions to start a structured programme for the training of Laparoscopic or Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MIS), which have replaced the open or traditional surgeries across the world. Also known as key-hole surgery, Laparoscopic or Minimally Invasive Surgery is a technique during which small incisions or cuts are made in the body and a laparoscope (a thin, tube-like instrument with a light and a lens for viewing) is inserted through one opening to guide the surgery. Explaining the Laparoscopic surgery, experts said tiny surgical instruments...