(MENAFN- Live Mint) New Delhi: Patients saved ₹16,000 crore under the government's flagship Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme (PMNDP), meant for ensuring free dialysis to eligible beneficiaries in all district hospitals across the country.
Under the scheme, 2.649 million kidney patients have been covered, with 31.7 million dialysis sessions conducted so far, the government said on Wednesday.
Dialysis, a treatment for kidney failure, removes waste from the blood. The programme was rolled out in 2016 as part of the National health Mission (NHM).
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Big out-of-pocket expenditure savings “Under PMNDP, 36 states are covered with 748 districts. We have established 1,575 dialysis centres across the country and 2.649 million patients have been covered so far. Around 31.7 million dialysis sessions have been conducted which is entirely free of cost,” health minister J.P. Nadda told reporters in New Delhi while highlighting the achievements of NHM.
“The net out-of-pocket expenditure saving under PMNDP is of ₹8,000 crore. Additional out-of-pocket expenditure savings on dialysis programme carried out under Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) is of more than ₹8,000 crore. So, this amounts to a total out-of-pocket expenditure savings of about ₹16,000 crore and the responsibility has been taken by the government,” he said.
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Dr. Vikas Agarwal, director and head of department, robotic urology, kidney transplant, Aakash Healthcare, New Delhi, said that the cost of dialysis in private hospitals can vary.“For a patient undergoing dialysis for the first time, the cost of inserting dialysis lines and using the dialyzer can be up to ₹10,000. However, for routine dialysis sessions, the cost typically ranges between ₹2,000 and ₹5,000 per session.”
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