Rangadore Memorial Hospital,
Bangalore
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The Bangalore Kidney Foundation was established in 1979 as a charitable institution. The Foundation was the first to appoint a nephrologist in Karnataka State, India. It was also the first to introduce dialysis and the first to conduct a successful transplant operation in the 1980s.
The Bangalore Kidney Foundation was the first to introduce the concept of ONE FREE DIALYSIS A DAY. Today, this concept has been picked up many other institutions/hospitals. The Foundation has till date conducted more than 3200 free dialysis absolutely free.
Today, the Foundation has been actively associated with the construction of a 100 bed hospital and running a 30 station dialysis center. The entire hospital along with equipment, furniture has come within a record time of eight months from finances raised through donations/charities. The Dialysis Center will be fully operational by the end of April 2007.
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Presently, the younger patients in need of dialysis take dialysis in the mornings and go to work. Thus, the elders are left to take their dialysis at odd and inconvenient hours. The Dialysis Center would be focusing mainly on elder patients' needs. The elders need not travel to the Center for tests. The trained technicians would visit their homes, collect samples of blood, urine, etc., and get the laboratory tests seen by experienced doctors and the medical advice would be sent to their homes.
The Bangalore Kidney Foundation has also tied up with the manufacturers of renal therapy products to get medicines directly at cost price. Thus the cost of a dialysis at this center would be Rs.450/- i.e., USD10.!--perhaps the lowest in the country.
The Foundation will also hold Preventive and Awareness Camps for the elders. With the increase in the aging population and also a steep increase in people afflicted with diabetes,the risk of renal failure becomes more and more common. Hence,the Bangalore Kidney Foundation would be playing an active role in making people aware of such risks and to take preventive measures.
Compiled by: M.V.N.RAJ-Hon.Director,The Bangalore Kidney Foundation, Bangalore.mail:nahusharaj(at)dataone.in
