There are approximately 200000 patients suffering from renal failure in Delhi who require dialysis every month, according to official figures. In contrast, only 27 dialysis machines function in the four government hospitals and six municipal hospitals in the Capital. With the private hospitals charging high amounts of money for the treatment, patients from financially backward families are left to suffer in the absence of adequate number of machines in government hospitals.
When a patient’s kidneys fail, the dialysis machine steps in to periodically rid the body of harmful wastes. In cases of chronic renal failure, the patient completely depends on dialysis. It also works for accident victims whose kidneys temporarily stop working due to trauma. In serious cases, patients have to undergo eight hours of dialysis every two or three days. The lack of dialysis facility in public hospitals proves fatal at times.
At private hospitals, a patient has to pay between Rs 1,800 and Rs 2,000 per sitting. Usually, patients with chronic renal failure undergo at least eight sittings a month, driving the costs up to Rs 16,000. Unlike this, in government hospitals, patients buy dialysis fluid for Rs 250. This fluid can be used for two sittings. For eight sittings of dialysis in a government hospital, a patient spends about Rs 1,000 every month.
In the hospitals run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), patients pay between Rs 3,000 and Rs 4,000 a month for consumables like intravenous fluids, medicines and disposable syringes. Services come free of cost. A sworn affidavit placed on record by the MCD before a Division Bench, led by Delhi High Court Chief Justice A P Shah on January 28, reveals that the civic agency has merely three machines operational.
SHRI ANANDPUR TRUST, a Charitable organization based in East Delhi , imparts free medical and surgical treatment to large number of poor and needy patients irrespective of caste, creed and religion through their hospital.
In keeping with the motto of service to the poor and needy, the Trust has opened a high tech Charitable Diagnostic Centre at Krishna Nagar, Delhi. This Centre, being charitable in nature, is unique of its kind in the metropolitan, where most of the state of the art diagnostic facilities are provided under one roof at a very nominal cost. Shri Anandpur Trust has added new services in its centre at NCR Delhi, where 25 most of the world latest technology machines have been installed for Haemodialysis and are providing ABSOLUTELY FREE dialysis to the poor and needy patients.
Working with the motto of “Service above Self” and emotionally committed to the establishment of a public service initiative, Rotary Club of Delhi Ashoka took it upon themselves to fight this challenge to help ‘PROVIDING FREE DIALYSIS TO THE ECONIMICALLY BACKWARD SECTION OF THE SOCIETY’.
Rotary Club of Delhi Ashoka has decided to further augment the existing resources of Shri Anandpur Trust, and extend their ability to provide free dialysis facilities to the additional poor and needy patients, by providing 2 Nos. “HAEMO DIALYSIS MACHINES”, which would be used to provide Free Dialysis to the financially needy patients.
We understand from Shri Anandpur Trust that they are providing 100 FREE dialysis to needy patients per day with their existing set up of 25 machines and there is always a waiting for about 400 patients, requiring dialysis. . With the addition of two more machines they will be able to provide 48 FREE Dialysis to needy patients per week.
In order to meet this challenge of providing FREE dialysis to financially backward strata of our society, we are proposing to donate under matching grant project two nos. Dialysis machines. The tentative c0st of the project shall be US $ 31,100/- approximately. | 
