PMC to begin dialysis unit at Meentai Thackeray clinic

PUNE The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is to begin a ten-bed dialysis unit at its Meentai Thackeray clinic under a private-public association model.

Under this arrangement, the PMC would go into a concurrence with a NGO for the following 10 years, wherein administrations would be given at an ostensible expense.

The office will give the hardware and the labor, while the metro body would give the space, 1,500 square feet, at the clinic. Water and power charges will be paid by the community body.

The Pmc Patient will go into a 10-year contract with a private NGO, Global Foundation, to give dialysis administrations at an ostensible expense of ₹357, including GST, per patient, per dialysis, without consumables.

The PMC in its proposition said that Pune city has an enormous number of diabetic and heart afflictions patients which prompts convoluted kidney infirmities.

Dr Sanjeev Wavare, associate wellbeing official at the PMC said, "This is to guarantee that even poor people and the individuals who can't manage the cost of dialysis, which is a customary and rehashed treatment process, can profit of the help.

At this point, the poor are reliant upon Sassoon General Hospital which gets a bigger number of patients than their ability thus we have chosen to begin a committed dialysis unit at our medical clinic. This will extraordinarily help residents who in any case need to draw out the essential need of dialysis which could additionally prompt muddled illnesses in the all around weak patients."