Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Archives

Dr Prokar Dasgupta: The surgeon who performed the UK’s first long-distance robotic surgery

by Amrita Priya | Mar 13, 2026

(March 13, 2026) Padma Shri awardee Dr Prokar Dasgupta OBE has spent more than three decades in Britain building a career defined by surgical firsts. From pioneering robotic urology and developing the widely adopted “Dasgupta technique” for overactive bladder, he has...