The Union Health Ministry is Planning to offer peritoneal dialysis(PD) facility to kidney patients at their homes. The Health ministry has framed this proposal under Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme (PMNDP). PMNDP was launched in 2016 to provide free dialysis care to the patients in district hospitals. But PD, which is another form of standard […]
The death of three people who were connected to different dialysis machines due to similar causes in around the same time has left doctors baffled. The incident took place in a hospital in Puducherry. Nephrologists are of the opinion that death of patients on dialysis because of power fluctuations is ‘nearly impossible.’ The equipment for […]