Gulmi, Dec 30: Dialysis service has started in Gulmi Hospital. On the 9th and 12th of this month of Poush, dialysis services were provided to one patient, and now the regular services will be started in the hospital.
Debiram Khanal of Resunga municipality-8 of the district has successfully performed dialysis in the hospital. With the start of dialysis service in Gulmi Hospital, the patients need not go to outside of the district like Palpa, Butwal.
The hospital has five machines for dialysis services. An expert doctor and a nurse have been arranged in the hospital for dialysis services. A patient should undergo dialysis twice a week. It takes about five hours at a time.
The public health inspector of the hospital, Bom Aryal, informed that dialysis services can be provided to nine people a week in the hospital. Aryal says that if the manpower for dialysis can be increased, service can be provided in two or three shifts with the same material and maximum patients will benefit from it.
The government of Nepal has provided Rs 2,500 for dialysis once. Gulmi Hospital has not received this facility as it has not received permission for dialysis service.
Aryal says that after the successful treatment of Khanal, all the technical aspects of the hospital, including the dialysis equipment, have been proven to be in order, and now an official letter will come from the Department of Health.
Khanal, who underwent dialysis at that hospital, started dialysis in Kathmandu. Khanal has now become the first patient to receive services from the district hospital. Being the first patient, Khanal was treated free of charge by Gulmi Hospital.
