A new medical center was opened today in Mirigama at the base hospital premises to provide relief to thousands of patients suffering from Urinary calculi in Sri Lanka.
The medical center, known as the “Mirigama Urinary calculi Removal Treatment Center”, was inaugurated under the patronage of the Minister of Health and Mass Media, Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa. Doctors say that it will help reduce the current waiting list of over 5,000 surgeries.
This national need, which has been lacking in the area for 20 years, has been successfully completed in a short period of 03 months with the intervention of the Non-Communicable Diseases Task Force of the Ministry of Health and on the instructions of the Minister.
Although there are over 30 specialist urological surgical units operating across the island, due to the shortage of operating rooms and limited access to modern endourological technology, patients have to wait on waiting lists for kidney stone removal surgeries in large numbers.
This new center, built as a practical solution at the national level, will allow government specialist urological surgeons working in any part of the island to bring their patients here and perform surgeries with high efficiency under modern technological facilities.