The state government will soon start 28 new dialysis centres at 4 different places.
Giving a reply during Question Hour, in the state Legislative Assembly, on Friday, Health Minister Kondru Murali Mohan said that the state government would started 10 dialysis units at Ongole, and 6 units each in Vijayawada, Kadapa and Mahabubnagar.
The said that there were 164 dialysis units functioning in various government hospitals in AP.
They include 18 units in Gandhi Hospital, 15 in Osmania General Hospital, 10 units each in Guntur and Vijayawada, 8 units each in Warangal, Kakinada and Tirupati, and 4 units in Anantapur.
Kondru Murali Mohan admitted that there were no dialysis units in the Girijan areas.
However, he attributed this to the shortage of nephrologists in AP.
He said the government was trying to bridge the gap by taking up initiatives under the Public-Private-Partnership mode.
The minister claimed that dialysis was being done on patients 8 times in a month under the Arogyasri scheme.
He denied that illegal kidney transplantations were taking place in the state.
MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi alleged that the government was providing dialysis facilities to Arogyasri patients only twice or thrice a month. TDP MLA R Chandrasekhar Reddy, too, alleged that the government was promoting corporate hospitals by not upgrading dialysis facilities in public hospitals. He pointed out that in Mahabubnagar district, a certain 100-bed hospital does not have a facility for dialysis.
However, the Kondru denied the allegations, and said that the government would soon increase the number of dialysis units in the state. (INN)
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