(Yicai Global) March 21 --  Chinese hospitals have completed the global first remote brain surgery  via the fifth-generation of wireless network, despite a distance of  thousands of kilometers. 

Telecom operator China  Mobile and handset maker Huawei Technologies partnered to power the  operation via a superfast live-streaming connection, which allowed Chief  Physician Ling Zhipei to consult a doctor to set a deep  brain stimulation implant for a patient with Parkinson's disease in  Beijing's PLA General Hospital, state-backed Economic Information Daily  reported, citing China Mobile.

"The surgery was almost real-time and I even could not notice that my patient was 3,000 kilometers away from me," Ling said. The doctor heads PLA's two neurosurgery departments in Beijing and Hainan, but he happened to be in the southern province when the acute case emerged.

The global first 5G  surgery happened last week in China, as two public hospitals treated a  patient with a liver tumor, Yicai Global reported on March 14. 

5G makes remote medical  operations safe as it allows experts to know about patients' conditions  anytime and anywhere, Beijing-based China Mobile told the Economic  Information Daily. 

Editor: Emmi Laine