PUDUCHERRY: A modernised dialysis unit with an additional eight haemodialysis units at Indira Gandhi Government General Hospital and Post Graduate Institute (IGGGH & PGI) was dedicated to the people by Chief Minister N Rangasamy on Thursday.

The state of the art facility with advanced equipment set up at a cost of Rs 50 lakh in a separate block would add to the existing facility of four units. This would enhance the capacity to dialyse 12 patients at a time.  The block is to provide free dialysis for poor patients as they could not afford dialysis in private hospitals, he added. One of the machines is exclusively for HIV patients. So far 21,000 sessions of haemodialysis have been performed and 160 sessions are being performed every month. The addition of eight new machines could help serve more needy patients, said the Director of Health and Family Welfare Dr K V Raman.

Dialysis is expensive and those with  temporary and permanent Kidney failures require it for survival. Hence, the facility would be highly beneficial for increasing number of patients. The government introduced a Dialysis Technician course in the Mother Theresa Institute of Health Sciences with nine seats. The students would be doing their apprentice in IGGGH & PGI, which would serve the duel purpose of training as well as providing the manpower required to run the dialysis unit.

Peritoneal dialysis is also done regularly for patients. Besides, home dialysis facilities are also provided by the hospital. Renal transplant, which was discontinued for some time, has been revived once again with one transplant done last month. Both the recipient and donor are doing well. This month another case has been posted, he said.

Soon, a Speciality Hosp in Karaikal

Puducherry: The work on construction of a super specialty hospital in Karaikal at an outlay of Rs 50 crore would commence soon, said Chief Minister N Rangasamy, briefing reporters after inaugurating an additional block of haemodialysis unit at the Indira Gandhi Government General Hospital and Post Graduate Institute here.  Chief Minister N Rangasamy said a project plan had been prepared for the execution of the project. 

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