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 In the Lebanese capital Doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta is guiding
colleagues at Gaza's Al-Awda hospital via an online interactive
platform known as Proximie, which allows the medical teams to
communicate and work together via tablet computers.
Doctors in Lebanon attempted remote surgery in the region for the
first time at the weekend with the tool. Its makers hope it will
help doctors such as Hafez Abu Khousa in Gaza, whose patient needed
specialist plastic surgery his team could not provide unaided.
"It is like the consultant is with you in the same room, giving you
an opinion so that the surgery can be perfect," Abu Khousa said
after the operation.
He was guided via live video and by his Lebanese counterpart drawing
markers over an image of the patient's hand.
Gaza has been run by the Islamist Hamas movement since 2007. Since
then, Egypt and Israel have maintained a blockade on the territory,
carefully monitoring the flow of goods and people to and fro.
Restrictions on imports and fighting in the region have also
affected medical facilities.
(Reporting By Yara Abi Nader and Sabreen Taha; Writing by Rose
Wyatt; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
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