Public patients to access robotics

By Catherine Reilly.   Fifty public patients with prostate cancer attending University Hospital Galway (UHG) are to have access to robotic prostatectomy at the Galway Clinic, which is privately owned, imminently under an “initiative” with West/North West Hospitals Group and at a cost of around €650,000, IMT has learned.   Access to the state-of-the-art technology will be “of considerable benefit” to the men on the waiting list, said the hospitals Group spokesperson. “The procedure will be carried out by a consultant surgeon from UHG on a weekly basis, providing access for public patients to a significant piece of equipment that…