CMCH patients suffer due to faulty hemodialysis machines.

LARKANA -- Twelve 12 Hemodialysis machines have turned idle since over 10 days which are installed on ground floor of the Dialysis Centre working in Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH). Over fifty kidney-failure patients get Hemodialysis daily at the Centre in three shifts.

The Head of Department (HOD) and Senior Registrar, Nephrology, Dr. Ghulam Abbas Qadri, told this scribe that he had written four letters to the CMCH Medical Superintendent (MS) within a week but of no avail so far. He said eight other Hemodialysis machines installed on the first floor of the building with separate RO which had not yet been handed over to them.

He said: "According to expert engineers, membranes of RO plants are regularly get choked due to which these sophisticated machines become out of order." In his letter, Dr. Qadri wrote to MS that due to non-operation of RO plants, Hemodialysis machines of Hepatitis negative, Hepatitis C positive and HIV positive machines had become inoperative which might create law and order situation, hence, all three RO systems be repaired immediately.

Cost of each membrane is approximately Rs 40,000 and each RO plant has two membranes which meant that because of unavailability of required funds of Rs 160,000, two RO Plants were left nonworking since over 10 days and over 50 dialysis patients have been deprived of this life-saving facility for no fault of theirs at all. He said even SIUT team visited the Centre on Friday who also were apprised of the prevailing situation. He said poor patients of several districts of Sindh and parts of Balochistan are benefited from this free facility who are now being referred to other healthcare facilities.

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