HelpMeSee, Eleta Eye Institute, and Christian Blind Mission Launch Nigeria's First Simulation-based Cataract Surgery Training Center to Combat Public Health Crisis

Using the HelpMeSee Eye Surgery Simulator, a high-fidelity virtual reality platform with haptic feedback, trainees can perform hundreds of simulated MSICS procedures in a supportive learning ...
Ealing Times

Park Royal surgeons trial virtual reality during complicated op

VIRTUAL reality is allowing trainee surgeons to learn about complex surgical procedures outside the operating theatre.
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Kenyan doctors turn to virtual reality to tackle leading cause of maternal deaths

Thirty-five per cent of maternal deaths in Kenya are caused by postpartum haemorrhage. Another 22 per cent by preeclampsia. Now, a University of Nairobi team is fighting back with VR ...

'She started to forget, little by little': Virtual reality offers escape to Gaza's children

In Gaza City, Palestinian children in displacement camps have been given some virtual reality headsets. For a few minutes, ...

A NEW VISION FOR SURGERY

"However, I can see its use being expanded to all branches of surgery and envisage it becoming an important method of training surgeons." So far the system is limited to surgery of the head and upper ...