Jaipur: In an initiative to bring relief to patients struggling with chronic kidney failure in remote locations, the state health department will start hemodialysis services at 182 centres, including 11 district hospitals and 102 community health centres, within a month.
The medical health department's expansion plan includes district hospitals, sub-divisional hospitals, community health centres, and satellite hospitals. This development eliminates the need for kidney patients to travel considerable distances for regular treatments, as the service will now be accessible at nearby community health centres.
Gayatri Rathore, principal secretary of medical and health department, said that it was announced to start the facility of hemodialysis in a phased manner. "This facility will be started in medical institutions with 50 or more beds in the first phase."
Director of public health, Ravi Prakash Mathur, said, "We are aiming at starting them as early as possible. At many of the health centres, the installation work has also been started."
A senior officer said, "The facility will be made available at 15 district hospitals, 57 sub-divisional hospitals, 102 community health centres, and at eight satellite hospitals in the state. People of many districts were to travel to different districts from remote villages for the hemodialysis process. It will also de-congest the district hospitals when the facility is made available at the community health centres in the villages as well."
Authorities said that at many places installation is going on and in some of the districts the tender process is over.