Kumasi Hospital removes 880-gram bladder stone in rare surgical case

A team of doctors at Kumasi Hospital, a private health facility in the Ashanti Region, has removed an 880-gram bladder stone from a 49-year-old man in what the surgical team believes could be one of the largest such stones ever removed in Africa.“We searched medical literature from the continent, but we couldn’t find any documented and removed bladder stone as big as this one.

According to Guinness World Records, the largest bladder stone on record was removed from a patient in Brazil in 2003.