First ever Robotic Pediatric Surgery in the Phil.


The first ever Pediatric Robotic Surgery was performed at the St Luke’s Global City Medical Center on June 13, 2017! This was performed on an 11 year old patient to remove an 8 cm Dermoid Cyst from the right ovary . It was full of hair, cartilage and oily sebum!! (L-R Dr Alet Hernandez, Anes, Dr Rebecca Singson, main surgeon assisted by Dr Angelica Chua and Dr Bianca Rojas w the robotic team of nurses, Kim Llanes and Berna Borneo (the latter not in the photo) .