NephroPlus has opened its second unit in Bengaluru at the VIMS Hospital in Marathahalli. The facility currently has six beds which will be increased to 12 beds.

As part of the new centre launch, NephroPlus has also announced a week long free kidney care camp with check-ups for patients from July 4 to 11, 2012 at the VIMS unit. It is aimed at educating the people about the importance of renal care, causes of kidney ailments along with tips to maintain the health of the kidney.

The kidney care major is working to increase its presence in Karnataka. Its first centre was set in March this year at the Koshy’s Hospital in Ramamurthy Nagar, Bengaluru. It plans to launch another five clinics with similar capacity in the next six months in the state. These could be either  standalone clinics or those set-up in partnership with leading hospitals and medical colleges. Several patients from Karnataka who have experienced NephroPlus care at its facilities in Andhra Pradesh at Banjara Hills,  Marredpally and Santoshnagar in Hyderabad and one at Mahabubnagar, expressed interest in NephroPlus setting up similar units in Karnataka, according to VikramVuppala, CEO and founder, NephroPlus.

NephroPlus also has a facility in north India at Kanpur. Its objective is to prevent cross infection at all centres including the one at Kanpur. To this end all the units are monitored by a first-of-its-kind remote monitoring system to monitor machines and RO(reverse osmosis) plants, to proactively manage outcomes thereby ensuring zero cross infection.

India accounts for 20 lakh ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease) patients with one lakh new cases annually driven by diabetes and hypertension. ESRD cannot be treated with drugs and dialysis is the only option. There are some improvements in the dialysis process itself that are constantly being tried and adopted. However, the state of kidney care in India currently is in a shambles as more than one-third dialysis patients get infected by life threatening HIV, Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B infections during dialysis.