Hyderabad: The Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) performed 1,000 robotic surgeries in less than three years, with over 90 per cent procedures free of cost. The surgeries included 590 procedures by the Urology Department, 248 by the Surgical Gastroenterology Department and 162 by the Surgical Oncology Department. The hospital had earlier performed South India’s first robotic kidney transplant in the government sector. Noting that the NIMS had recently completed 2,000 kidney transplant surgeries, they hailed it for emerging as one of the country’s leading organ transplant centres. Besides NIMS, robotic surgeries are being conducted at MNJ Cancer Hospital, while advanced robotic operation theatres are planned for the upcoming TIMS hospitals, Gandhi Hospital and the new Osmania General Hospital,” said an official release.