The patients are worried because the dialysis machine installed at the Karnali Institute of Health Sciences Teaching Hospital, Jumla, is not operational. They are forced to go to hospitals in Surkhet, Nepalganj, Kathmandu for dialysis.

On the 14th of August last year, then Health and Population Minister Mohan Bahadur Basnet announced the start of dialysis service at Karnali Institute of Health Sciences Teaching Hospital Jumla by providing 6 dialysis machines. But even after one year and four months of the announcement, the service has not been operational. 

Most of the kidney sufferers go back to the hospital. They have demanded to provide services by bringing the dialysis machine into operation immediately . 'There is a dialysis machine in the hospital . But patients who need to undergo dialysis have to go to Surkhet, Nepalgunj,' said local Krishna Prasad Gautam, 'so that the patients can be seen to be in operation soon.' , 'When the dialysis machine was inaugurated, kidney sufferers were happy . Let's start the service now and see more happiness than that.'

'There was no need to go to Kathmandu now,' said another Om Bahadur Rawat, 'now the number of referrals has increased.' Dialysis service has become only a name.'' The copper plate that started dialysis service can be seen even now . But there is still confusion about when to get the service . 

According to the doctors of the Karnali Institute of Health Sciences, 20 to 25 patients who need dialysis go outside the district every year. Karnali Institute of Health Sciences has said that the dialysis service will start immediately. Director Dr. Dr. Dialysis service was stopped because the water produced by the old saw machine was not of good quality. Pujan Rokaya informed . 

Director Rokaya said, "The old machine could not produce satisfactory water". The dialysis service has been stopped after 3/4 times of testing did not work well. The foundation said that the dialysis machine will arrive in Jumla within a week.