Tarun Karthick
Campbell Bay, 12 May 2023
Andaman & Nicobar Administration has established a Dialysis unit at Primary Health Centre, Swaraj Dweep which was nearly inaugurated on eleventh May 2023, by Mr. Keshav Chandra, IAS, Chief Secretary, A & N Administration. The unit has two machines and shall be managed by one Medical Officer educated in Dialysis and one Dialysis technician underneath the supervision of a doctor educated in Dialysis by Telemedicine. This will convey nice aid to 6 sufferers of Chronic Kidney illness who needed to journey by boat from Swaraj Dweep twice or thrice per week to bear Dialysis at G.B.Pant Hospital, Port Blair. It may also present a possibility to vacationers affected by Chronic Kidney Disease and are on common upkeep haemodialysis to bear Dialysis throughout their keep at Swaraj Dweep, which has change into probably the most wanted vacationer locations in our nation. Last yr six vacationers availed this facility at G.B. Pant Hospital, Port Blair.
With the institution of a Dialysis unit at Swaraj Dweep, the Primary Health Centre has achieved a uncommon distinction of being the one Primary Health Centre in our nation to have a dialysis unit. The unit shall be registered underneath PMNDP (Prime Minister National Dialysis Programme) and can present Dialysis freed from value to all sufferers as being practised in different Dialysis items in these Islands.
Under the PMNDP the Andaman & Nicobar Islands have Dialysis items in all three District Hospitals in Port Blair, Mayabunder and Car Nicobar in addition to in three Community Health Centres in Diglipur, Rangat and Bambooflat, offering freed from value Dialysis facility to 209 sufferers affected by Chronic Kidney Disease. The complete variety of Dialysis Machines in these Islands being 36.
In his inaugural handle, the Chief Secretary congratulated the crew of Health Department for the achievement and urged the sufferers affected by Diabetes and Hypertension, the 2 commonest causes of Chronic Kidney Disease, to get themselves screened at common interval so as to detect the event of Chronic Kidney Disease on the earliest and delay its development to finish stage Kidney Disease requiring dialysis.
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