The government has been providing Rs. 300,000 including Rs. 100,000 for dialysis and Rs. 200,000 for kidney transplantation.The Association has appealed to the government to provide Rs. 500,000 for dialysis and for medicine.[break]
The government in April had decided to provide Rs. 300,000 to the kidney patients after the frequent talks held between the kidney patients and the government.
As many as 2.7 million people in the country have kidney related diseases while 270,000 people have their both kidney damaged.
Around 60 per cent of the kidney patients are said to live for some months while 90 per cent of them survive only for two years and 99 per cent of them die within five years if they do not undergo regular dialysis and treatment, said Director of the National Kidney Treatment Centre, Dr. Rishi Kumar Kafle.
Kidney patients, who had to go to India for kidney transplantation some years ago, can now get the service at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and the Bir Hospital in the capital, and at the Human Body Parts Transplantation Centre, Bhaktapur.
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