KARACHI, July 4: The city government has installed a lithotripsy machine worth Rs28.6 million at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital with the help of two German engineers.

The machines are also available at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and Civil Hospital Karachi. However, ASH is the first hospital being run by the city government where such a machine has been installed.

The German engineers, Davide Vinzi and Jorg Kaiser, were providing technical training to the hospital staff about the functioning of the machine.

The lithotripsy machine is used to fragment and disintegrate kidney stones through high-energy shock waves.—PPI