Her name is Nethra. She is in her prime - twenty five years, though she is as thin as a school girl. In an age where she must be savoring all the good things life has to offer, she is lying in a hospital bed, attached to a dialysis machine. She travels two hours in the morning, reaches this hospital and gets dialysis done and goes back home in the evening with her brother. She has no hopes about her future. She must spend her entire life in this way, visiting the hospital twice a week for her dialysis.
Why can't she go for a kidney transplant? Because none of her near-ones are willing to donate the kidney and buying a kidney cost 20 to 30 lakhs. She can't even think of that kind of money what with working class family and every one except her elder brother, being alcoholics.
We Bangaloreans pride ourselves for our techies who can be seen wherever we go. Can these techies do something about people like Nethra, some kind of machine which can be implanted in the body to clean the blood of its waste products.
Or can't our government build enough dialysis centers AND which provide free dialysis to BPL families? Or at least it can provide some funds for some charitable hospitals who can undertake such work.
Or is it a sin for a poor Indian to fall sick?
Dialysis is a procedure used when a person's kidney fails. Kidney is an organ responsible for cleaning our blood. If a person's kidney is not functioning then through dialysis, the blood is cleaned.
There are two types of dialysis
There is another thing all of us can do. If you want to help a little, you can even give your old newspapers and magazines to the hospital.
Why can't she go for a kidney transplant? Because none of her near-ones are willing to donate the kidney and buying a kidney cost 20 to 30 lakhs. She can't even think of that kind of money what with working class family and every one except her elder brother, being alcoholics.
We Bangaloreans pride ourselves for our techies who can be seen wherever we go. Can these techies do something about people like Nethra, some kind of machine which can be implanted in the body to clean the blood of its waste products.
Or can't our government build enough dialysis centers AND which provide free dialysis to BPL families? Or at least it can provide some funds for some charitable hospitals who can undertake such work.
Or is it a sin for a poor Indian to fall sick?
Dialysis is a procedure used when a person's kidney fails. Kidney is an organ responsible for cleaning our blood. If a person's kidney is not functioning then through dialysis, the blood is cleaned.
There are two types of dialysis
- hemo dialysis
- In this method, the patient's blood is circulated outside the body and into the machine, and it is cleaned in the machine and then sent back to patient's body
- peritoneal dialysis
- Here patient's own peritoneal membrane which is semi-permeable is used as a filter. A plastic tube is implanted into patient's abdomen. He or she slowly empties about two quarts of dialysate fluid through the catheter into the abdomen. As the patient's blood gets exposed to the dialysate through the peritoneal membrane, impurities in the blood are drawn through the membrane walls and into the dialysate. The patient drains out the dialysate after three or four hours and pours in fresh fluid.
There is another thing all of us can do. If you want to help a little, you can even give your old newspapers and magazines to the hospital.
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