A 24-year-old youth, who had problems in urinating owing to complications in the lower urinary tract, was injected a medicine around the urinary bladder neck at a hospital in Howrah to avoid a surgery that could have compromised his sexual health.

The youth, a student of mechanical engineering, was not keen on the surgery when doctors told him that his sexual activity would be compromised if he underwent the procedure.

“The urine flow was very slow. I had to urinate repeatedly but each time the volume was very little. Since the medicine was injected, things have improved a lot. My doctor has scheduled a follow-up after six months,” said the youth, a Budge Budge resident.

Boppana Venkata Bhargava, a consultant urologist and uro-oncologist at Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Howrah, where the youth was treated, said that if the problem recurred after six months, he might need a second injection.

Bhargava said in a healthy male, the bladder neck is usually wide open during urination. But it remained closed in the 24-year-old.

“It was happening because of hyperactivity. This medicine stops the hyperactivity,” Bhargava said.