PIMS to resume free kidney stone treatment after five years
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Islamabad : The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences is set to ease the misery of poor people with stones in urinary tract by resuming free lithotripsy after a gap of five years. The procedure meant to break kidney and bladder stones into tiny pieces by lasers for passing out in the urine had come to a stop at the government hospital, the largest in the federal capital, in 2013 when the Rs30 million lithotripter machine broke down. The then and next hospital administrations did nothing for its repairs and thus, leading to the closure of the lithotripsy unit overseen by the Urology Department. The patients with stones either turned to private hospitals for expensive non-invasive and...