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Time of India
2 days ago
- Health
- Time of India
State plans to increase dialysis beds to meet rising demand
Panaji: To cater to the demand of chronic kidney disease patients requiring dialysis, state govt is looking at increasing the number of dialysis beds . Govt in 2024-25 approved the setting up of five new dialysis beds at health centres in Porvorim, 2, Curchorem, 2, and Dharbandora, 1. It is also considering the expansion of dialysis facilities at South Goa district hospital by five beds and the health centre at Sanquelim by two beds, health minister Vishwajit Rane said. There are also plans to increase the number of dialysis beds at GMC, where 350-400 persons undergo dialysis on a monthly basis. The set up at GMC currently has 24 hemodialysis machines with 17 technicians and one dedicated transplant ICU operational. The directorate of health services has 16 centres offering dialysis with 135 machines and 800 patients undergoing dialysis. With 104 patients, North Goa district hospital sees the highest number of dialysis cases, followed by Canacona Health Centre with 96, South Goa district hospital with 87, and Ponda with 82. Patients undergoing dialysis at health services centres in South Goa are 500. The South Goa district hospital has 15 dialysis units and is being run as part of the public-private partnership project under the Pradhan Mantri Dialysis Programme . It offers dialysis from Monday to Saturday, 6am to 8pm, and is managed by Apex Kidney Care Pvt Ltd under the PPP model in collaboration with health services. All employees at the dialysis unit at South Goa district hospital are under the payroll of Apex Kidney Care and comprise one senior nephrologist on a visiting basis, one dialysis physician, one staff nurse, seven dialysis technicians, and two facility assistants.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Health
- Time of India
State plans to increase dialysis beds to meet rising demand
Panaji: To cater to the demand of chronic kidney disease patients requiring dialysis, state govt is looking at increasing the number of dialysis beds. Govt in 2024-25 approved the setting up of five new dialysis beds at health centres in Porvorim, 2, Curchorem, 2, and Dharbandora, 1. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now It is also considering the expansion of dialysis facilities at South Goa district hospital by five beds and the health centre at Sanquelim by two beds, health minister Vishwajit Rane said. There are also plans to increase the number of dialysis beds at GMC, where 350-400 persons undergo dialysis on a monthly basis. The set up at GMC currently has 24 hemodialysis machines with 17 technicians and one dedicated transplant ICU operational. The directorate of health services has 16 centres offering dialysis with 135 machines and 800 patients undergoing dialysis. With 104 patients, North Goa district hospital sees the highest number of dialysis cases, followed by Canacona Health Centre with 96, South Goa district hospital with 87, and Ponda with 82. Patients undergoing dialysis at health services centres in South Goa are 500. The South Goa district hospital has 15 dialysis units and is being run as part of the public-private partnership project under the Pradhan Mantri Dialysis Programme. It offers dialysis from Monday to Saturday, 6am to 8pm, and is managed by Apex Kidney Care Pvt Ltd under the PPP model in collaboration with health services. All employees at the dialysis unit at South Goa district hospital are under the payroll of Apex Kidney Care and comprise one senior nephrologist on a visiting basis, one dialysis physician, one staff nurse, seven dialysis technicians, and two facility assistants.
Time of India
14-06-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Not mother or wife, man from G'kopar gets kidney from dad
Mumbai: When 33-year-old Ghatkopar-resident Kiran Kumte needed a kidney donation, he had three options: enrol for a kidney from a brain-dead donor, take a kidney from his young wife, or his 66-year-old father. "I registered for a cadaver kidney, but my father wouldn't hear any of it. He didn't want me to wait endlessly for it. Moreover, he said my wife needed to take care of her children while he was fit enough to donate for me," said Kumte, adding he has an extra reason to be grateful to his father, Dnyaneshwar Kumte, a daily wage labourer, on Father's Day. The Kumte family story, however, bucks the Indian trend where it's usually the mother or wife who donates a kidney to a male patient. "Nearly three-fourths of my male patients who get a kidney donation from a living relative get it from a woman," said Nephrologist Dr Vaibhav Keskar, who treated Kumte at Fortis Hospital, Mulund. "If a man is a donor, it's usually for his brother or spouse," he added. A 15-year-long study by Dr Jatin Kothari from Apex Kidney Care and IIT Bombay recently underlined the gender skew in live kidney transplants in India: Men with kidney failure are more likely to undergo dialysis or get a chance at a transplant than women across India. Two out of three dialysis patients in India are men, and women make up nearly three-quarters of the pool of kidney donors, the study added. It's against this backdrop that Kiran feels lucky to have received a kidney from his father in February. tnn Follow more information on Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad here . Get real-time live updates on rescue operations and check full list of passengers onboard AI 171 .
