Mumbai: In a major breakthrough for public healthcare, JJ Hospital has become the first medical institution in Maharashtra — across both government and private sectors — to successfully perform robotic scoliosis deformity correction surgery.

The historic procedures were performed on two patients, one from Dhule in Maharashtra and another from Nizamabad in Telangana, both suffering from severe spinal deformities that caused intense pain and breathing difficulties.

Patients Suffered From Progressive Kyphoscoliosis

According to senior doctors, the patients — 24-year-old Divya Suryawanshi from Dhule and 15-year-old Master Rasul Shaikh from Nizamabad — had been living with progressive spinal kyphoscoliosis, a condition that severely impacts posture, mobility, and lung capacity.

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