After the re-launch of dialysis facility at Central Hospital Dhanbad for Covid patients last month, another dialysis facility for Covid patients was unveiled on Monday at the Sadar Hospital here as per the direction of Dhanbad Deputy Commissioner Uma Shankar Singh.
Talking to The Telegraph Online, M Hussain, in-charge of the dialysis centre at Sadar Hospital by DCDC Kidney Care said, “We are already running a two-bed facility for the general (non-Covid) patients but now we have also developed another two-bed facility for Covid patients."
Hussain added, "There is usually a huge rush of non-Covid patients for dialysis facility so out of the two beds developed for Covid patients, we will allocate only one bed to Covid patients now as very few Covid patients require dialysis facility. We will increase it to two for Covid patients as and when required.”
Talking about the challenges faced by the hospital in treating Covid patients, Hussain said, “We had to make separate arrangements of reverse osmosis water supply, separate drainage for the waste products of the Covid patients and also separate toilet facilities to avoid any infection to non-Covid patients.”
He added that they also carried out counselling of non-Covid patients visiting Sadar Hospital of Dhanbad for dialysis to avoid any confusion among them.
The dialysis facility at Sadar Hospital for non-Covid patients was launched about three months ago on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode.
“Though we have to install a total of 10 beds at the hospital, we will increase the number of beds as per the assessment of requirement of patients. Procuring machines and then keeping them idle will lead to exhaustion of battery and other issues,” said Hussain.
Dhanbad DC Singh on July 22 instructed the Chief Medical Superintendent of Central Hospital, AK Gupta to relaunch the dialysis facility at the hospital lying non-functional for a while in order to provide the dialysis facility to covid patients by July 30. The BCCL management restored the facility by July 25 itself.
Singh during the same day had also instructed different hospitals including Asian Dwarkadas Jalan Super speciality Hospital, Asharfi Hospital Limited and Pragati Medical and Research Centre to keep two beds each in their respective hospitals reserved for the dialysis facility of Covid patients.
The DC also pulled up the management of Asian Dwarkadas Jalan Super speciality hospital for denying dialysis facility to a Covid-affected patient despite the fact that the district administration has instructed the hospital on July 20 itself to provide dialysis facility to the patient.
