Kumasi doctors remove 880-gram bladder stone from 49-year-old man

Photo of the 880-gram bladder retrieved after surgery 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.

Resembling a ball of clay, the oval-shaped mass is a giant bladder stone — a hard, crystallised formation that developed inside the bladder of the patient, identified as Akoto, not his real name.