Mexico has performed the first liver transplant from a living donor assisted by a robot and performed by a team from the public hospital of La Paz in Madrid. A feat that has been celebrated by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, during her visit to Mexico, a circumstance considered a global health milestone.
In a meeting with businessmen from the Chamber of Commerce of Spain in Mexico, the popular leader has praised that "Madrid has one of the best public healthcare systems in the world in all aspects, for its professionals, for its therapies, for its advanced techniques, for its generosity and - she continued - today we learned that here in Mexico the first liver transplant from a living donor assisted by a robot has been performed and carried out by a team from the public hospital La Paz in Madrid".
"This -he stated in front of those present- is a myth in global healthcare in transplants and has been carried out here, where Spaniards and Mexicans have been together. I believe this is how we must face the future - thus defending - how many more lives we can save, how many more lives we can prolong, how much unnecessary suffering can be avoided, how much prosperity to how many little corners, big and small".
On this occasion, the transplant has been carried out thanks to a team of general and pediatric surgeons from the La Paz Public Hospital of the Community of Madrid, who recently traveled to Mexico to train professionals from the Naval Hospital and the National Transplant Center of the North American country (CENATRA), in the performance of a hepatectomy for living donor liver transplant assisted by robotic surgery, a technique in which this Madrid center has been a pioneer since 2024.