Responding to the complains of many patients taking treatment at the dialysis centres , the Maharashtra government has decided to formulate a new policy for such centres , the guidelines of which will need to be strictly adhered to .
The state health minister , Deepak Sawant told that the new policy will be ready in 3 months .
"The first meeting on framing the guidelines was held yesterday . We were periodically receiving complaints that patients are being handled carelessly by dialysis centres" , Sawant told PTI.
Sawant said that the centers will be told to restrict the no. of dialysis to three in a day .
There is also a severe staff shortage in these centers upon which he said , "There is a need to increase the number of technical staff , but before that the number of nephrologists has to be increased "
"While providing good service to the patients , the atmosphere and the standard parameters should be followed by these centres . At present a centre handles more than 3 patients in a day and the standard time to do dialysis of a patient is 3.30 hours . But many times , each patient does not get more than two and a half hours" , he said.
Hence the 3 patients limit will be set . Along with this the use of dialyser will also be have to limited to a specific period of time .
This can be definitely be seen as a people-friendly step take by the Maharashtra Government and will make the dialysis process more hassle free and effective .
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