DAMAULI: While the country observes a lockdown, extended for a second time, against the global pandemic of coronavirus, kidney patients in Tanahun district have finding it difficult to reach the health facilities to carry out their regular kidney dialysis.
Kidney patients in dire need of undergoing regular dialysis have been adversely affected by the lockdown.
They are either forced to hire an ambulance to visit the hospital or seek help from container carrying goods.
Dev Bahadur Gurung of Byas municipality-6, Sisaghat said he spent Rs 30-50 as transport fare to visit the Damauli Hospital-based Shatrudhan Manju Dialysis Center before lockdown.
However, in the wake of lockdown, he has been paying Rs 1,000-1,500 each time for the ambulance service.
He even cannot ride his motorcycle due to the lockdown. He needs to undergo dialysis twice a week.
Likewise, Anisha Subedi of Belchautara of Shuklagandaki municipality-5 said nowadays she was seeking help from containers to reach the dialysis center.
However, she was getting support from security people for this. ”Lockdown has caused inconvenience to people like me who need regular dialysis.”
Dilsobha Rana of Myagde rural municipality-1 shared she had to beg for relative’s help to visit the center. ”My relative has been dropping me to the center since lockdown and when police intervenes with us, I genuinely put my problem before them.”
As said by center’s in-charge Shailesh Pandit, though lockdown was not easy for us specially those requiring regular treatment, they were managing to visit the center in one way or another.
The center was established on 19 November 2015. So far, it has been providing regular dialysis facility to 210 kidney patients whose number makes up 72 percent of total kidney patients visiting the hospital.
(RSS)
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