Delhi Health Minister Dr. A.K. Walia stated that the city government has been striving hard to expand its healthcare facilities apart from providing the best quality health services for all especially for the poor and other vulnerable sections of the society. It may be recalled that the city government had announced the installation of modern Dialysis machines in its hospitals in order to provide the services at most reasonable rates and to provide the same to the BPL patients and those patients having annual family income up to Rs.3 lakh with a rider that the patient has been a resident of Delhi for the last three years.
The government has worked meticulously to launch the dialysis services. It has been decided to launch dialysis services in three government hospitals on 19th August, 2013. Initially, 32 machines will be installed at LNJP Hospital, Bhagwan Mahaveer Hospital and Janakpuri Superspecialty Hospital. This was decided in a high level meeting chaired by Dr. Walia and attended by the Additional Secretary (Health), DHS and other senior officers of the Health Department and PWD.
Dr. Walia stated that the government would bear the expenses of dialysis in respect of BPL patients and other poor patients having family annual income up to Rs.3 lakh. The other patients would be charged only Rs.1073/- for the dialysis process which takes 2-3 hours. There would be no need of patients to be admitted in hospital in this purpose as the government would be using most modern machines and deploy well-trained personnel. The rate of Rs.1073/- is most reasonable and almost half of the rate being charged in private hospitals/Nursing Homes where more than Rs.2000/- is being charged for the process.
Dr. Walia stated that the expenses of dialysis of poor patients and patients with family income up to Rs. 3 lakh annually would be met out of funds available with Dilli Arogya Kosh. The funds of Delhi Kalyan Samiti are also presently being utilized in respect of poor patients being referred by the city government to 10 designated Centres in private hospitals. It has been observed that cases are being daily referred for this purpose. He expressed confidence that the government would be able to increase number of its dialysis machines very soon and the launch on 19th August would go a long way in the treatment of kidney related diseases.
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