Dialysis patients seek more centres in Warangal

Warangal: Dialysis patients from Jayashankar Bhupalpally and Mulugu districts urged the State government to set up Hemodialysis centres in their respective district headquarters. While there is a 14-bed dialysis centre at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Warangal, which was set up in April 2018, Narsampet government area hospital, Jangaon area hospital and Mahabubabad area hospitals were equipped with five beds each. Every day, 25 to 35 kidney patients visit these hospitals seeking free dialysis.

The dialysis centre at MGM is visited by 60 to 65 patients from Hanmakonda, Jayashankar Bhupalpally and Mulugu districts. Mohammed Shafiq (30), an auto driver, thanked the State government for setting up a dialysis centre at MGMH. “But I request the government to set up a dialysis centre in Mulugu district as patients from faraway places are forced to travel to Warangal thrice a week,” he said and added that he hails from Pochapur village near Pasra about 70 km from Warangal.

Another patient, Narsula Sravani (33), who is undergoing treatment at the MGM centre, also thanked the government for providing free dialysis for kidney patients. “I have only one kidney. But recently, It also got shrunken and forced me to go for dialysis,” she said and added that setting up a dialysis centre in Bhupalpally would help patients like her to avoid travelling to Warangal. A total of 125 patients were registered with the MGM centre and were allotted time slots, said in charge of the Dialysis Centre at MGM Hospital, Naveen Kumar.

Meanwhile, the officials of the Medical and Health Department said that the proposals were already made to set up dialysis centres at Mulugu and Bhupallpally government hospitals. “Mulugu and Bhupalpally have been upgraded into the District Hospitals under the National Health Mission (NHM). We hope the government will soon set up dialysis centres here too as the proposals were already there,” said an official.