Haryana govt to open dialysis centres in 14 districts

The Haryana government will open dialysis centres in 14 districts in the first phase under public private partnership mode, in an effort to provide affordable dialysis facility.
This was disclosed by Health Minister Anil Vij today at Panchkula after inaugurating four such dialysis centres at civil hospitals in Gurugram, Panchkula, Jind and Sirsa.
The other 10 civil hospitals that would be covered in first phase include Ambala Cantonment, Bhiwani, Rewari, Panipat, Sonepat, Faridabad, Hisar, Yamunanagar, Jhajjar and Bahadurgarh.
The remaining districts in the state would be covered in the second phase.
He said that these centres would provide dialysis facility at Rs 959 and Rs 1,130 as compared to Rs 2,000 or more being charged in the private sector.

He said that this facility would be given free of cost to BPL and urban slum patients of the state, patients receiving handicap allowance from the state government, poor patients who do not belong to any free category, those belonging to Scheduled Castes in Haryana, patients belonging to economically weaker sections in the state, unattended victims of road accidents and state government employees, pensioners and dependents.
Vij said that 10-bedded unit for patients of Hepatitis-B, Hepatitis-C and HIV/AIDS, has been established in the dialysis centre at Panchkula.
Apart from this, minimum eight-bedded facility would be provided in such centres to be set up in other districts.