Hetauda Hospital has expanded its services with 16 additional dialysis machines, and regular treatment has begun for all patients on the waiting list.
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Hetauda Hospital has further expanded its hemodialysis service. Patients waiting for dialysis services will now also receive treatment. All patients who were waiting so far have been included in the regular service.
The service has been further expanded and brought into operation to provide services to all patients on the waiting list for hemodialysis services. Earlier, 102 patients who were receiving regular dialysis services at the hospital have been included in the dialysis waiting list since Wednesday, said Madan Bhandari Institute of Health Sciences Registrar and Hetauda Hospital Chairman Bhimsagar Guragain.
Earlier, due to lack of dialysis machines, services were being provided to only 35 to 40 patients daily, but now 60 patients can be provided daily, he said. He said that the service was started from Wednesday after preparing the treatment schedule for the patients on the waiting list and none of the patients who have come so far have to wait for their turn.
Out of the 14 hemodialysis machines in the hospital, only 9 machines were being used on most days due to the fact that 5 of them were not working regularly. The institution has been able to provide adequate service after purchasing 16 additional machines.
The 16 machines have been added with a total investment of 40 million, including 20 million from the institution and 20 million from the Bagmati Province government. Now 20 machines will be running regularly, 2 for emergency dialysis, 2 for ICU, 2 for HIV and hepatitis infected patients, and 4 machines will be left, informed Registrar Guragain. Currently, more than 25 employees are working in this department. Chandralal Tamang of Hetauda-11, who came to get his wife's hemodialysis, said he was happy with the services at Hetauda Hospital, saying, "The family-like attitude of the health workers and the expansion of services have made it easier for us."
Hetauda Hospital has been providing dialysis services for three years. Due to the lack of dialysis machines, not all kidney patients in the area were able to receive the service. "Now, patients do not have to wait because there are enough dialysis machines," said Utsav Chaulagain, spokesperson for the Madan Bhandari Institute of Health Sciences.
