3-day nephrologists’ meet held at Puri
A three-day conference of the Indian Society of Nephrology (East) was inaugurated here by Governor Dr SC Jamir on the Friday.
He said nephrology as a disease was on the rise and many patients were suffering from it. The State Government has taken steps to provide cost effective or free treatment to the BPl patients. Specialist nephrology surgeons at the SCB Medical College and Hospital have been performing kidney transplant successfully, Dr Jamir said.
Health Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak said renal disease had been on the rise among the young and productive age groups. To address the menace, 20 dialysis machines were installed at three Government medical colleges of the State while another 30 machines would be installed at the SCB very soon.
The cost of the expensive treatment was being covered under the Rastriya Swashya Bima Yojna (RSBY) or by OSTF while a roadmap for the entire State was being worked out to instal dialysis units at all the district headquarters hospitals, the Health Minister added.
He informed that within next two years, 64 kidney transplants were performed with 88-92 per cent success. Initiatives were on to establish a modern lab to conduct cadaveric renal transplant programmes to meet short supply of live organ donors.
A web based Odisha dialysis network system would be developed to make kidney donation and transplantation smooth and transparent, he said further. A research and investigative study would be conducted in collaboration with ICMR to ascertain the cause of rise in renal diseases, he stated.