Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Mobile clinic for kidney ailments

KOZHIKODE: The mobile clinic launched under the Snehasparsham project of the Kidney Welfare Society of the district panchayat will tour all the schools in the district to detect kidney ailments.

The society decided to conduct school-level check-up considering the growing instances of renal diseases among students.

The society will provide Rs 50,000 per month to conduct check-up at the schools.

In the initial phase, the mobile van will tour all the higher secondary and high schools in its limit.

The project will cover the upper primary and lower primary schools in the second phase.

The doctors from Iqra hospital will conduct check-up among students to detect kidney ailments. The society will bring the students under the Snehasparsham project who are in need of monthly dialysis.

Those who have been detecting with symptoms of renal diseases will be asked to begin early treatment. The mobile van worth Rs 65 lakh was donated by one of the sponsors in the district.

District panchayat president and chairperson of the Kidney Welfare Society K Jameela said, "The growing number of kidney ailments among students forced us to think of conducting a camp for the early detection of renal diseases among them. Experts will check the blood pressure, ECG and renal disease in the schools. A total of 22 children belonging to the age of 12 to 20 years have been receiving benefits of the Snehasparsham Project. We hope to eliminate renal diseases in a phased manner from the district,'' said the chairperson.

Snehasparsham Project launched in the district aims at providing financial aid to beneficiaries to conduct dialysis.

At present, the society has been helping 635 patients to carry out dialysis.

The society is providing Rs 2,500 in cash and Rs 600 worth dialyser to each of the beneficiaries every month.

K Jameela said that the society will set up a dialysis centre at Kuttiyadi soon.

"The new centre will cater to the requirements of patients from Wayanad, Nadappuram, Kunnummal and Perambra. People have been approaching the dialysis centre set up at the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital to carry out free dialysis,'' said the chairperson.

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