Free Dialysis in Punjab government hospitals

Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024

40 Govt Hospitals now provide Free dialysis facilities^[1]
-- 23 District Hospitals
-- 14 Sub-Divisional Hospitals
-- 3 Community Health Centres

This bolsters healthcare facilities for patients with kidney ailments

32800 dialysis sessions have been given to 4831 patients from April 2024 to Nov 2024

¶ MoU with NGOs

Punjab Government also has collaboration with NGOs including The Hans Foundation, Mata Gujri Trust Jagraon and Helpful NGO^[1:1]
Govt has total 64 hospitals (41 sub-divisional and 23 district hospitals^[2]

Hans Foundation^[2:1]

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with Hans Foundation on February 27, 2024
Free dialysis services at 8 government hospitals started in Punjab from 25 Sept 2024, 30 new dialysis machines were started on 25 Sept 2024
Locations: Patiala, Amritsar, Malerkotla, Moga, Goniana, Fazilka, Faridkot, and Jalandhar
Hans Foundation will be providing trained medical officers and other staff, consumables, dialysis machines and RO plants to the department and will supervise the functioning of these centres
In addition to free dialysis, all the essential medications will also be provided at free of cost

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