Hyderabad: The state government has decided to introduce free dialysis services to HIV / AIDS and hepatitis patients in Telangana. Exclusive dialysis centers for such patients will be established in the coming days in Hyderabad and Warangal, Health Minister T Harish Rao said here on Wednesday.
The health department is making arrangements to set up five beds, each equipped with dialysis equipment for HIV / AIDS and hepatitis patients in Hyderabad and Warangal. In Hyderabad, such a facility is expected to appear at Gandhi Hospital, Osmania General Hospital (OGH) or NIMS, where the health department already operates free dialysis facilities for chronic kidney patients.
In a review meeting on Aarogyasri in Telangana, Health Minister Harish Rao ordered the authorities to set up the two facilities at the earliest. “Poor chronic kidney patients struggle a lot to raise funds to undergo dialysis on a regular basis. This is why the state government has established 43 free dialysis facilities, providing free dialysis facilities to 10,000 kidney patients across Telangana. Every year the state government makes an expenditure of Rs. 100 crore to offer these facilities, ”he said.
To further expand the dialysis facility, Prime Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao recently instructed the state health authorities to extend free dialysis facilities to HIV / AIDS and hepatitis patients. “We will ensure that HIV / AIDS and hepatitis patients do not have to wait long at these dialysis facilities. Exclusive dialysis machines will be established for such patients, ”said Harish Rao.
Senior health officials including Secretary, Health, SAM Rizvi, DCA Director, Preeti Meena, OSD, Dr Gangadhar and others were present.
Source: Telangana Today