Cuttack: The SCB Medical College and Hospital here has proposed to set up a Nephro-Uro Institute to address the needs of increasing number of patients related to kidney disease.
Nephrology department head Chittaranjan Kar said the proposal to establish a Nephro-Uro Department under one roof could benefit a large number of people who come to diagnose kidney ailments. The Nephro-Uro unit will be designed according to Chandigarh and Vellore medical college models to treat patients with modern facilities.
Due to increasing incidence of kidney-related ailments in the state, the Indian Council of Medical Research is conducting a research to trace its grass root factor. Banki, Badamba, Narsinghpur and Tigiria in Cuttack district have been identified as red zone of kidney related diseases.
Notably, the SCB Medical College and Hospital has been designated as a comprehensive management unit among the medical colleges in the state where ultra-modern equipment and treatment facilities for kidney-related ailments are available.
Kidney transplant operations were launched at the hospital in 2012-13 and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) for diagnosing heart related ailments was started in 2013-14. The unit has conducted 125 kidney transplant operations successfully. This apart, the hospital has 22 CAPD machines and the patients outnumber the machines. The patients keep waiting in long winded queues from the morning to midnight everyday.
The Nephrology department is invariably crowded. The unit has provision for admitting 70 patients, but it has only 45 beds. About a hundred people take shelter at the hospital waiting for treatment.
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