OPERATION VIRTUAL
CHANNEL | BBC Reel
SERIES | Change Agents
ROLES | 360
Operation Virtual explores how surgery is moving into the digital realm and how new technologies are helping to redress global inequalities in healthcare, saving lives worldwide.
As a child growing up in Lebanon during the civil war, Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram witnessed first-hand the devastating effect that inequality in surgical care could have. Today, five billion people across the globe still lack access to safe surgery. More people die from this than from HIV, malaria and TB combined. In response, she’s created a technology that allows surgeons to virtually scrub into any operating theatre around the world, just by using a tablet or computer.
