Six more dialysis machines capable of providing modern and improved treatment to the kidney patients are going to be added to the Kidney Department of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. The RMCH authorities procured three of the machines made in the USA and received three others made in Japan from the ministry of health.
Brig Gen AKM Nasir Uddin, Director of RMCH, told journalists the new dialysis centre is likely to go into function within next 15 days. With this breakthrough, treatment of kidney related diseases would be easier here. The number of service-recipients will increase to 24 per day instead of 10 at present.
President of RMCH Management Committee Fazley Hossain Badsha, MP, said the machines were procured for providing modern and improved treatment to the patients. Around 96 percent people are deprived of the treatment due to lack of money. From now on, they will be benefited from the new centre.
The hospital had seven dialysis machines which became less ineffective for longtime use.
In Bangladesh about 30,000 kidney patients need dialysis, but the machines available at hospitals can provide the treatment to only around 5,000 patients a year.
