Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah.
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Bengaluru: The Health department has announced improved dialysis services for free for the poor suffering from kidney failure. The single-use dialyzer care will soon be available to those undergoing dialysis.
Over 800 new single-use dialysis machines will be installed across the state in a public-private partnership. The installation of new dialyzers has almost reached the final stage, and the single-use dialysis healthcare service will begin from Saturday.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will inaugurate the new dialysis service at KC General Hospital in Bengaluru on Saturday. About 20 new single-use dialyzer machines have been installed at KC General Hospital with a capacity to provide dialysis services to 72 patients every day. Each dialysis cycle will cost Rs 1,573, and the government will bear the cost and provide free services to the patients. With 800 dialysis machines capable of providing 7.20 lakh dialysis services annually, a new era of infection-free dialysis system will herald in Karnataka.