{"id":243781,"date":"2026-09-09T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angolan-surgeons-perform-countrys-first-robotic-kidney-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:55:42","slug":"angolan-surgeons-perform-countrys-first-robotic-kidney-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angolan-surgeons-perform-countrys-first-robotic-kidney-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Angolan Surgeons Perform Country&#8217;s First Robotic Kidney Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Luanda \u2014 Surgeons in Angola have successfully performed the country&#8217;s first robotic kidney operation, marking what health officials have described as a major milestone for the nation&#8217;s medical sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The 90-minute procedure was carried out on a 52-year-old patient, Pinto Cafumana, at the Cardiopulmonary Disease Hospital Complex (CHDCP) Dom Cardeal do Nascimento in the capital, Luanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">A local medical team successfully removed a tumor from Mr Cafumana&#8217;s right kidney under the supervision of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609090031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Surgeons in Angola have successfully performed the country&#8217;s first robotic kidney operation, marking what health officials have described as a major milestone for the nation&#8217;s medical sector. The 90-minute procedure was carried out on a 52-year-old patient, Pinto Cafumana, at the Cardiopulmonary Disease Hospital Complex (CHDCP) Dom Cardeal do Nascimento in the capital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,6556,7216,13214,257,8556,9458,24988,254,41746],"class_list":["post-243781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-angolan","tag-countrys","tag-kidney","tag-news","tag-operation","tag-perform","tag-robotic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surgeons"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}