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SSI's Mantra is taking off:

“Presently we have 5 orders from across the country, the next system will be going to Raipur, then Hyderabad and then two systems will also be going to Mumbai, and we are constantly receiving the orders from all over the country, and it's open for all at the moment. The surgeons are all convinced but the only seed of doubt that the surgeons currently have is they want to see the live procedures, and for that Dr Sudhir Rawal has graciously opened up his OT for visiting doctors to see the procedures. We have been approached by TATA Cancer Group in Varanasi, Hospitals and Nursing homes in Patna and Lucknow among others so a great amount of interest is also being seen from the tier 2 cities,” said Mr Srivastavam Founder, Chairman & CEO, SS Innovations.

In India,  a robotic assisted procedure costs anywhere between Rs 5-6 lakhs rupees to a patient and the cost of one surgical robotic system to the hospital is around Rs 7-8 crores excluding the running costs which is around Rs 2.4 crore a year. But with the arrival of the homemade SSI Mantra, patients will now avail the same procedures starting with only Rs 40000, and the cost of one surgical robotic system is pegged at Rs 4.5 crore excluding the running costs for the hospitals which are free for the first three years and then are capped at Rs 50 lakhs per year. 

After two pilot projects where Dr Sudhir Rawal and his team from RGCI successfully performed a total of 26 surgeries with the SSI Mantra, thereby validating safety, feasibility, and effectiveness, the robot is now ready to provide an advanced method of surgery, which will be accessible to the general public at a much lower cost."

Source: BW Healthcare