A patient lies on a bed as a technician (L) adjusts a screen before the start of a Proximie surgery, with doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta in Beirut guiding Palestinian surgeon Hafez Abu Khousa in the operating room at Al Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip April 30, 2016. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza/BEIRUT: At a hospital in northern Gaza, a young patient is being prepared for hand surgery as one of the doctors leading the operation watches on – from nearly 200 miles away in Beirut.
In the Lebanese capital Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta is guiding colleagues at Gaza's Al-Awda hospital via an online interactive platform known as Proximie, which allows the medical teams to communicate and work together via tablet computers.
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