Dande hospital adds latest dialysis centre

NAGPUR: Dande Hospital at Ravi Nagar square is setting up a new dialysis centre with technical support and guidance from Quality Care Dialysis (QCD), a US-based multi-national. It is third such facility in the country after Coimbatore and Pune with state-of-the-art dialysis technology. QCD would also be contributing a big share of the total cost of project which is about Rs 1.5 crore.
Dande hospital managing director of Dr Pinak Dande says that the centre would be using the latest reverse osmosis (RO) technology to treat water used for dialysis. "You need as much as 150 litres water during one sitting of dialysis. The patient requires at least two such sittings per week. Indian patients with renal failure don't live beyond 2-4 years if they do not get a kidney transplant mainly due to low water quality. In USA patient live quality life for 20-30 years along with dialysis. In our centre, we would be setting up a state-of-the-art RO unit supplied by QCD along with dialysis machine," he said .
He added his centre would also train dialysis technicians from city and region to improve the quality of the care for the patients .
QCD president and CEO Suresh Vasu, who was in city for the launch, said that the water used in QCD dialysis units was much superior in quality compared to industrial RO water .
"There is a human element in the process. If the technicians do not follow all procedures laid down, the patient could die without ever knowing about technician's mistake. So following required standards is of utmost importance," he said. In USA, patient education was given great value, he added.
QCD's chief mentor B Rangarajan from Mumbai said, "In USA, dialysis patients can live totally normal life and also undertake exercises like swimming, cycling etc. In India such they are far from such stage. This centre will improve dialysis quality manifold," he said.