After All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi, Safdarjung Hospital is now the second central government-run hospital in north India to offer paediatric dialysis services
Hemodialysis (the process of cleansing the blood of patients with kidney illness) for children has been launched by the paediatric department of Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital.
Safdarjung Hospital, after All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi, is now the second federal government-run hospital in north India to offer dialysis facilities for children
Safdarjung Hospital typically referred kids with end-stage renal illness and chronic kidney disease to other facilities. Despite this, the department has been seeing at least two or three patients each day who require peritoneal dialysis (a kidney failure treatment that uses the lining of the abdomen, or belly, to filter blood).
The facility’s medical director, Dr. B. L. Sherwal, announced its opening and stated it will benefit kids with kidney failure.Kidney illness frequently affects young children. Acute renal failure causes many fatalities, many of which are preventable. Around 10% of all outpatient visits are for chronic renal failure, which is a significant proportion. The majority of these patients require hemodialysis while waiting for a kidney transplant, according to Dr. Sherwal. He also noted that there is a significant mismatch between demand and available resources.
Young patients from Delhi and isolated regions of neighbouring states are taken care of by the hospital. According to Dr. Sherwal, “the facility will give them a new lease on life.”
In February, Safdarjung Hospital opened a cutting-edge hemodialysate unit in its super-speciality building. Additionally, it declared that it will operate a daily nephrology outpatient clinic and increased dialysis hours to 8 pm.
