Kidney patients stage demonstration at Praja Bhavan, demanding assistance

Organized by the Kidney Warriors Foundation, patients gathered at Praja Bhavan, holding placards and staging a silent demonstration. They also sent a letter to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, requesting the extension of the monthly ₹10,000 pension and employment opportunities for the unemployed.

Hyderabad: Many kidney patients from across the State staged a demonstration at Praja Bhavan here on Friday demanding that the Congress government replicate the monthly pension scheme of offering Rs.10, 000 being implemented in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

Under the aegis of Association with Kidney Warriors Foundation, the patients assembled at the Praja Bhavan. They held placards and staged a silent demonstration.

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The patients have also written a letter to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to extend the monthly Rs.10,000 pension and provide employment for unemployed persons. Thanking the government for establishing dialysis centres in different districts for kidney patients, they said introducing Jeevandhan for organ donation was a major step forward.

However, the kidney transplant patients said they were facing some issues. They said as per Nephrologist’s prescription, they are forced to take medicines daily and this needs to continue lifelong. Aarogyasri transplant patient gets medicines worth Rs.9500, which covers only 50 percent of the medicines prescribed by the nephrologists. This apart, the prices of other medicines were very high, they pointed out.

Further, they also said Aarogysri Trust offers standard medicines to all transplant patients. But every patient needs different medicines as transplant varies for medical reasons.

“If cash assistance is extended or if patients are facilitated to order their prescribed medicines at discounted prices, it would be of great help,” they said.