BGS Global Hospitals has launched the Institute of Nephrology and Urology which can handle 300 dialysis in a month. The facility is equipped with a Haemodialysis unit with seven dialysis machines and one machine to perform a continuous renal replacement therapy.
The Institute of Nephrology and Urology dialysis unit is designed for 24 machines. Right now, there are seven machines and each costs around Rs 8 lakh. There is also a need for a good water treatment unit which is priced at Rs 10 lakh and can support 20 dialysis machines. Efforts are on to add another four machines in a few months, stated Dr S Padmanabhan, chief nephrologist, BGS Global Hospitals and former consultant National Kidney Foundation, Singapore.
The critical component of nephrology unit is the high quality dialysis machines with pure water treatment unit, stated Dr N K Venkataramana, vice chairman, BGS Global Hospitals.
The hospital has an advanced renal transplant centre and with a panel of experts which can offer both donor and cadaver kidney transplantation. Other offerings are renal biopsy, plasmapheresis, CRRT and in-patient services. The hospital offer free transportation to dialysis cases.
In addition, there is also an advanced lithotripsy equipment which is used for treating kidney stones, ureteric stones, bladder stones, pancreatic stones, tendon clacifications among others. With the ultrasound guided machines about 90 percent breakage is possible in one sitting. The van can access remote areas to ensure early diagnosis.
The key objective of the Institute is to ensure early detection. Chronic kidney diseases (CKD) can be preventable but not curable. Through its Wellness Clinic, which is coming up in BGS Global Hospitals, the effort is to launch a prevention programme which will create an awareness about control of diabetes and hypertension to prevent not only renal diseases but stroke, cardiovascular disorders and cancer.
World wide incidence of CKD is 50 million annually with one million of the cases on renal replacement therapy. The annual cost incurred on these patients is $23 billion. India accounts for one million cases a year. The increase in the disorder is due to systemic diseases that affect the kidney. Diabetes accounts for 37 percent of CKD cases glumerulonephritis and polysistic kidney diseases account for 16 percent and 15 percent respectively.
Dialysis poses extreme life style modification and psychological hassles. Therefore there is need for early diagnosis will prevent End State Renal Diseases. The cost of dialysis in India is between Rs1,000 to Rs 2000. A patient requires 12 dialysis a month, which works out to Rs 12,000 and with drugs it will be a minimum Rs. 20,000. Going by the expensive and unaffordable factor for much of the country's population, BGS's Institute of Nepho-Uro is advocating prevention.