Dialysis service continues in SDNTC despite lockdown

Kathmandu - The Shahid Dharmabhakta National Transplant Center (SDNTC) at Dhudhpati of Bhaktapur district has been continuously providing dialysis service to the patients amid the nationwide lockdown.

The Centre has however decreased the time from four hours to two to three hours for the dialysis during the stay-at-home order. Centre’s Director Dr Pukarchandra Shrestha said that 75 kidney patients were receiving dialysis service on a daily basis through 30 dialysis machines in three shifts.

As many as 109 patients were waiting for their turn for the dialysis, informed Dr Shrestha. The Centre receives five to seven patients coming here to emergency dialysis service. The regular follow up test on the patients and kidney and liver donors is also continuously being done in the Centre.

Surgery of kidney, transplant and OPD services in the Centre has been, however, halted in the centre since the stay-at-home order enforced throughout the country to contain the outbreak of COVID-19.