Health Update: Dialysis is an integral part of routine treatment for patients with renal failure. You have to go to the hospital several times a week for this treatment. 726 per day average in the state for such patients Dialysis Sessions pass. However, there have been complaints of disruption of treatment in some centers as service providers shouldering the financial burden of this vital healthcare service defaulted on their payments. So it was time for patients to look for alternative centers for treatment. In this background, the administration has made it clear that the government has speeded up the process of fund distribution and the remaining payments are also planned to be paid soon.(Photo Courtesy – AI)
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Free treatment under Maha Dialysis Scheme:
Under the Mahadialysis scheme, patients are given free treatment through 108 centers in the state. About 66 of these centers are run through the Department of Public Health. Other management practices are followed in the remaining centres. In the financial year 2025-26, 1 lakh 69 thousand 281 dialysis sessions were conducted in the centers of the government health system. 95 thousand 607 sessions were conducted in the centers run by HLL. Together, the number of sessions during the year is 2 lakh 64 thousand 888. This is the number of sessions, not the number of individual patients.
There is an urgent need to have a permanent arrangement
The Health Department has clarified that in case of technical failure or other reasons, the services are stopped in some centers, arrangements are being made to provide treatment to the patients in nearby alternative centers. However, complaints of services being shut down for two days to two months are a matter that raises questions about the efficiency of the system.
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Heavy financial burden on economically weaker patients
About Rs 1,500 is paid to the service provider for one dialysis cycle. Accordingly, the monthly treatment cost of one patient is around 18 thousand rupees. A dialysis in a private hospital can cost four to five thousand rupees. Therefore, if the services in the government scheme are stopped, there is a possibility of heavy financial burden on financially weak patients.