Hi-tech operating theatre for St Mark's Hospital, Harrow
9:50am Saturday 15th November 2008
Comments (0)A NEW £500,000 operating theatre used for key hole surgery is due to open on Monday.
Former Watchdog presenter and bowel cancer survivor Lynn Faulds Wood will open the theatre, at St Mark’s Hospital, in Watford Road, with husband John Stapleton, of GMTV.
Robin Kennedy, a consultant surgeon at the hospital, said: “This theatre is purpose built for the keyhole surgery techniques we now use to remove the bowel.
“Combined with our enhanced recovery programme we are able to reduce the time in hospital after major bowel surgery.
“In the past people used to have to stay 10 or more days and take at least two to four months to recover fully. Now they stay four days and look fully recovered after two to four weeks.”
The theatre is likely to treat 1,000 patients a year and will be one of only 16 training centres for training in key hole surgery.
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