Dharamshala, Oct. 15 -- Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Tuesday presided over the IRIS-2025 programme at Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Medical College, Nerchowk, in district Mandi. He announced plans to start robotic surgery at the college later this year and sanctioned Rs.28 crore for the installation of an MRI machine to be set up within two months. Robotic surgery has already commenced at Chamiyana and RPGMC Tanda, where 45 procedures have successfully been performed using robotic technology. He said that Himachali doctors were highly talented and outdated technology often hampers their ability to treat patients efficiently and the state government was replacing all the old machinery with the modern ones. The CM said the government has approved Rs.12 crore for a Cath lab at Nerchowk, out of which Rs.9 crore has already been released. He said that soon all medical colleges in the state would have smart diagnostic laboratories modelled on AIIMS, New Delhi.htc...