Guangdong hospital livestreams surgery for rural doctors

Surgeons at a hospital in Guangdong Province have performed its first surgery to be livestreamed using a combination of 5G networking and 4K video technology, reported local media.

Doctors perform a thoracic surgery in front of cameras at the Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital in Guangdong Province on Monday, April 1, 2019. [Photo: Chinanews.com]

Dr. Wang Linwen, the director of thoracic surgery at the Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, completed the surgery to repair a thoracic deformity on Monday. The procedure was filmed using 4K ultra-high definition cameras, and the images displayed on a screen at a rural hospital 200 kilometers away.

A doctor at Yangshan Hospital in rural Yangshan County in Guangdong Province watches the surgery being performed at a hospital in the provincial capital 200 kilometers away on Monday, April 1, 2019. [Photo: Chinanews.com]

"…There are many colleagues in remote areas who want to learn [surgical] skills, but it's too hard for them to come here," said Dr. Wang. "Live streaming this operation using these new technologies has enabled this problem to be solved."