KATHMANDU, JANUARY 16

Janakpur-based Provincial Hospital successfully removed a bladder tumour from the urethra of an 80-year-old using endoscopy.

This is the first time that the hospital has carried out such advanced non-invasive surgery in the hospital.

Dr Sudhir Singh, who operated on the octogenarian from Sunsari district, said the patient would be discharged from the hospital after two days. Janakpur based Provincial Hospital was capable of providing all advanced care to patients suffering from urology diseases.

'It is not that this hospital cannot provide urology care to patients, which they can get at any other advanced treatment centres or hospitals,' he added. Dr Singh who was Chief of Urology Department at BP Koirala Health Science Institute joined Madhes Institute of Health Sciences (MISC) two months ago.

Dr Singh said people would not have to travel far and wide to get treatment for urological problems. Vice-chancellor of MISC Dr Ram Kewal Sah said the institute had taken initiative to establish advanced care for people suffering from cancer, heart ailments and neurological diseases so that it could attract experts there and at the same time provide advanced care to the public in their own city.

A version of this article appears in the print on January 17, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.