Brampton woman receives 1,000th robot-assisted surgery at one of few hospitals in Ontario with the technology [Video]

Earlier this month, Kanwal Walia stood up and slowly walked the halls of the hospital just hours after robot-assisted knee surgery–the second one for her and the 1,000th procedure of its kind at Brampton Civic Hospital. 

Before the milestone procedure, Walia said she couldn’t walk and had been “crawling like a little child.” 

Now, just a few weeks out from surgery, she and her husband, Jesse Walia, are planning a summer trip to India and celebrating the welcome new normal that has come after years of debilitating knee pain. 

“Since 2009, I’ve had a problem. Whenever I’d go to the doctor, they said they couldn’t do [surgery] on a woman my age,” Kanwal tells INsauga.com. 

After years of discomfort, Kanwal was referred to Dr. John Harrington, the corporate …