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Published on: 03-02-2021
Waldfriede Hospital, a Seventh-day Adventist health-care institution in Berlin, Germany, performed its first surgery with the da Vinci robot on February 7.
“This day marked another milestone in the hospital’s 101-year surgical history,” hospital CEO Bernd Quoss said.
The da Vinci operating system is a robot-assisted surgical system for minimally invasive operations in the urological and gynecological fields. Chief physician and medical director Roland Scherer performed the surgery, together with physician Thorsten Unglaube. Since then, three operations have been performed by the proctology department. The gynecology department began with its first operation on March 1.
at Waldfriede Hospital in Berlin, Germany. Since its opening in 2013, more than 600 women affected by FGM have sought the center’s medical help. The interview has been slightly condensed. Editors
What do you think are the most important actions to achieve the goal (zero tolerance) of this day? Apart from the professional help you give, what can we do as individuals to end FGM?
The most important measure in the fight against FGM is widespread education and schooling of children, locally, in their home countries. In general, the public should be sensitized to the issue, information on FGM should be bundled and further developed on an interdisciplinary basis, and professional competencies should be strengthened. Thus, in 2020, we founded the “Berlin FGM C Coordination Office.” This is a cooperation of three organizations: the family planning center BALANCE, Terre des Femmes, and the Desert Flower Center at the Waldfriede Hospital. The coordination office aims to link the exis