Jan 12, 2021 Karuna Hospital, A multi specialty hospital located at Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu has started incision less surgery for Kidney stones.

In a surgery called RIRS (Retrograde Intrarenal surgery), a flexible tube is inserted via urethral opening and probes the internal part of kidney and the stones are fragmented with the LASER. No incision of any type is required and patient usually recover and can go home in same or next day. Karuna Hospital acquire a high grade Holmium Laser from Germany and started its service this week. A 26 year old gentleman from Dang, with flank pain and kidney swelling underwent the procedure and has gone home after recovery the very next day.

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With this service, Karuna Hospital is now fully equipped with diagnosis and treatment of all sorts of kidney and related disease. “As there is no incision and scars, more and more care seekers and care givers are choosing and preferring RIRS as the best for the kidneys stones removal whenever indicated” quipped Dr. Sujit Poudyal, Senior Consultant Urologist. Before this, urological surgery services included MiniPCNL for kidney stone as Minimally invasive surgery, URSL for ureteric stone with semi rigid scopes, TURP for Prostate, TURBT for bladder cancer and open surgery. “We are happy to give more treatment options to patients and this will add another armamentarium in our arsenal” said Dr. Saugat Poudyal, Medical Director and Senior Oncologist.

Karuna Hospital has been providing multi specialty services to patients that includes General Medicine, General Surgery, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, Dermatology, Obstetrics and Gynecology as well specialities services in ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Neurosurgery, Nephrology, Cardiology, Oncology and Chemotherapy, Pulmonology and Critical Care with advanced 14-bed ICU. According to CEO and Neurosurgeon Dr. Ram Kumar Shrestha, Karuna Hospital is expanding its services with 7 bed NICU, Painless Labour Services and Ophthalmology and Dental Service very soon.”