Dialysis on Call kicks off in Hyderabad
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New Delhi, July 30: With a major breakthrough for renal treatment, dialysis centre NephroPlus on Friday announced its home-based 'Dialysis on Call' service in Hyderabad, Telangana. The company is said to expand its portfolio of service offerings by taking the dialysis setup to a patient's place and conducting the procedure at their comfort zone.
On the launch of the service, Mr. Vikram Vuppala, Founder and CEO, NephroPlus, said, "During the COVID-19 pandemic, several patients were unable to travel for their regular dialysis sessions, and every missed dialysis session hurts the patient's health. Since these patients are immunocompromised and have significantly higher mortality due to COVID than healthy people, reducing the exposure of such people to external environments, specifically hospitals in these tough pandemic times is critical. We are glad to roll out this service in Hyderabad and Pune and plan to scale this up to 5 cities including Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore in the country over the next several weeks."
With the 2nd year of the ongoing Covid-19, accessing public places for health treatments remains a challenge in the country. And so has the demand for in-house services of critical care such as Home ICU and Home Dialysis. According to the centre, In Dialysis on Call, a specialized vehicle carries the dialysis machine, consumables, RO water tank, and an expert technician to the patient's home. After ensuring the pre-requisites, the dialysis is conducted and the vehicle returns to its base location.
Kamal D Shah, Co-Founder, and Director, Patient Services of NephroPlus added, "The Dialysis on Call service is specially designed to help patients access their treatment in the comfort of their homes. Since I am a dialysis patient for more than 24 years now, I understand the hardships involved, and therefore to make these services accessible, we have kept this process very flexible.
One of the advantages of this service is that the machine and other equipment do not need to be stationed in the patient's home, which may suit with some who cannot accommodate big equipments inside the house.
