<p>This was informed to the media on Thursday by hospital’s administration officer Dr K R Kamath. <br /><br />“Flexible uretero renoscope and holmium- pulsed laser’ is the latest technology acquired by the hospital at a cost of ` 30 lakh, becoming second hospital in the city with the facility”, Kamath added. <br /><br />By opting for the latest in the realm, the hospital offers to treat such cases at the subsidised rates in the range of ` 35,000 to ` 40,000. It is one third of the expenditure incurred in the super-speciality hospitals, Kamath said.<br /><br />Explaining about its features consultant urologist Dr Prakash K Prabhu said as is the name, it’s a flexible device that minimises the risk involved in blasting the stones in kidneys. <br />Currently the stones are being blasted by using lithotripsy machines like ballistic (high pressure air) Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL) and also laser lithotripsy. <br /><br />In the case of ballistic that involves risk, the device that wasn’t so flexible had to be inserted through the rigid parts in the human body to reach the stone/s. The new device eases the strenuous efforts turning either sides without affecting the organs, the doctor claimed. It can blast a minimum of six mm size stone to maximum of one cm.<br /><br />On the prevalence rate of such cases, the doctor said 80 per cent of the people comprising both rural and urban areas suffer from stone related problems. <br /><br />But only a few among them are the fit cases for surgery. He attributed it to change in dietary pattern and also less intake of water.<br /><br />Managing Trustee of BSMS Trust Vinod Rao, treasurer Arun Shenoy were present. <br /></p>
<p>This was informed to the media on Thursday by hospital’s administration officer Dr K R Kamath. <br /><br />“Flexible uretero renoscope and holmium- pulsed laser’ is the latest technology acquired by the hospital at a cost of ` 30 lakh, becoming second hospital in the city with the facility”, Kamath added. <br /><br />By opting for the latest in the realm, the hospital offers to treat such cases at the subsidised rates in the range of ` 35,000 to ` 40,000. It is one third of the expenditure incurred in the super-speciality hospitals, Kamath said.<br /><br />Explaining about its features consultant urologist Dr Prakash K Prabhu said as is the name, it’s a flexible device that minimises the risk involved in blasting the stones in kidneys. <br />Currently the stones are being blasted by using lithotripsy machines like ballistic (high pressure air) Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL) and also laser lithotripsy. <br /><br />In the case of ballistic that involves risk, the device that wasn’t so flexible had to be inserted through the rigid parts in the human body to reach the stone/s. The new device eases the strenuous efforts turning either sides without affecting the organs, the doctor claimed. It can blast a minimum of six mm size stone to maximum of one cm.<br /><br />On the prevalence rate of such cases, the doctor said 80 per cent of the people comprising both rural and urban areas suffer from stone related problems. <br /><br />But only a few among them are the fit cases for surgery. He attributed it to change in dietary pattern and also less intake of water.<br /><br />Managing Trustee of BSMS Trust Vinod Rao, treasurer Arun Shenoy were present. <br /></p>
