Operating theatre at the cutting edge

EXCITING development: Riza Ibrahim, consultant vascular surgeon at the Royal Oldham

A Futuristic new £1.3m operating theatre is to be built at the Royal Oldham Hospital.

The specialist vascular service theatre will be a state of the art environment with high definition imaging and other advances.The project should be completed in around three months.

Riza Ibrahim, consultant vascular surgeon at Royal Oldham, said: “This is a very exciting development combining a normal operating theatre with an ultra-high-quality imaging suite. It crucially allows intra and post-operative imaging and intervention on the operating table.”

The theatre will have an advanced scanner that will allow highly-detailed pictures to be taken during operations - meaning patients will be able to have imaging and surgical procedures togeher, rather than having to go through different procedures on separate occasions.