Ghaziabad: For the first time since it was launched in 2018, a dialysis center at a joint-district hospital walked under its capacity.
The reason, the claims of officials, is the death of 30 patients in recent months.
This center has the capacity to register 120 patients and do a total of 1,170 dialysis sessions per month.
At present, 107 registered people and around 900 sessions are being carried out.
The source claimed that with more than 140 people in the queue, there used to be a wait for more than two months until last year the number of patients in the dialysis center had registered a continuous decline since March this year.
According to official records, the center runs at a capacity of 75.5% in March, which fell to 70.68% in April and 68.33% in May.
Concerned about the decline in the number of patients utilizing facilities, the head of the Medical Supervisory of Hospital Dr.
Sanjay Teotia had been looking for an explanation from the central manager.
The reply has a surprising facts.
The central manager told me that 30 dialysis unit patients had died in recent months.
However, the cause of death they are not mentioned.
In addition, because of locking, many patients face difficulties in reaching the center, which is functional even during the second wave height.
Many patients contracted Covid were referred to Meerut Medical College for dialysis per order of state government.
“The average number of dialysis carried out per day is around 45 on normal days, but these days around 25-30% less sessions are being carried out.
We have tried to publish vacancies in the center, which provides free facilities,” said Dr.
Teotia told toi.
This center was developed under the PPP model and made functional in February 2018 on DCH.
It was run by DCDC PVT Limited, a private company, which has signed a MoU with the state government.
While patients are given free care, the state government pays a fixed amount in the company per session, which costs between Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,400.
At present, there are 15 machines in the middle, two of which are reserved for hepatitis patients.
, The central manager has notified hospital management that now efforts are made by the center to call more patients for dialysis.
Dr.
RC Gupta, a senior doctor at the hospital, said that kidney patients who underwent dialysis were in the highest risk category if they contracted Covid infection.
Opportunities for their survival below 1%.
Pneumonitis in Covid patients worsens the situation in dialysis patients.
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