India, Aug. 28 -- Doctors at Sassoon General Hospital (SGH) have successfully performed a rare life-saving laser surgery on an eight-month-old boy suffering from a serious urinary tract obstruction. The baby was born with a birth defect that later developed into renal failure, said hospital officials on Wednesday.

According to the officials, the baby, a resident of Beed, was admitted to the hospital on June 29 with complaints of fever, difficulty in passing urine, dribbling micturition (involuntary loss of urine immediately after finishing urination) and pyuria (presence of a large number of white blood cells, also known as pus cells, in the urine).

According to SGH doctors, the child was diagnosed with a kidney problem early on, but th...