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The ‘Da Vinci Xi’ robotic surgical system, costing Rs. 30 crore commissioned using funds from the ‘Rebuild Kerala’ initiative, makes precision surgery accessible to patients from all socio-economic backgrounds. The robotic assisted surgery confers multiple benefits including minimally invasive approach, decreased patient pain, reduced intraoperative bleeding, and expedited recovery after surgery. 

For the first time in Kerala, a robotic pediatric surgery for cancer was performed at the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) in Thiruvananthapuram. On March 2025, the Surgical Oncology Department at RCC carried out the procedure on a three-year-old boy from Nepal for treating neuroblastoma.