New Delhi: Delhi Cabinet today gave its approval for setting up of Dialysis Centres in six Delhi Government major hospitals. It also gave its nod to the new Excise Policy for 2013-14. The decisions were taken at a Cabinet Meeting chaired by the Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
While briefing the media after the Cabinet meeting, Smt. Dikshit stated that her government has always been striving hard to provide better healthcare facilities to all, especially the poor and members of weaker sections of the society. The government while fulfilling its earlier assurance to provide free dialysis procedure for the poor has given its nod to a proposal to set up state-of-the-art dialysis centres in six Delhi Government major hospitals. The government has decided to install 120 dialysis machines which would provide free of cost dialysis and allied procedures to the poor and identified categories of patients as per the policy of the city government.
The others would be charged affordable rates. 30 machines would be installed at Rajiv Gandhi Super-specialty Hospital, Tahirpur, 20 machines at Hedgewar Arogya Sansthan, 25 each at Janakpuri Super-specialty Hospital and Bhagwan Mahaveer Hospital, Pitampura and 10 each at Lok Nayak Hospital and Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital, Malviya Nagar. Hence, the dialysis centres would be stationed at different places across the city to cater the needs of patients nearer to their place of residence. Dikshit stated that with commissioning of 120 dialysis machines across the city would go a long way in helping needy patients and will provide them quality services at reasonable rates.
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