Indonesian surgeons perform nation's first robotic kidney transplant after Seoul training

One patient with end-stage renal disease successfully received a life-saving kidney transplant after nearly a year of dialysis treatment.

In June, a man in his fifties in Indonesia received a kidney transplant performed entirely by robotic instruments — the first of its kind in his country — after nearly a year of dialysis had tethered him to machines. The procedure was made possible by a deliberate partnership between Siloam Hospitals and Seoul's Asan Medical Center, where Indonesian surgeons trained for months before returning home to build a program from the ground up. It is a quiet reminder that medical knowledge, when shared with intention across borders, can extend the frontier of what is possible for patients far from whe

Indonesian surgeons perform nation's first robotic kidney transplant after Seoul training

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