South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) dedicated a newly-constructed dialysis centre at Kalkaji’s Poornima Sethi Multi Speciality Hospital to citizens.

SDMC Mayor Mukesh Suryan said that the cost of each session of dialysis costs anywhere between `6,000 and ` 7,000 in private hospitals but the same facilities will be made available at `1,400 in Poornima Sethi Multispecialty Hospital.

The mayor said that patients may require dialysis two-three times in a month and even require recommendations to get dialysis done.

Elaborating about facilities available at the centre, the Mayor said that the centre has been set up with the cooperation of Nipro Medical Corporation.

“The ‘state of the Art’ centre will have a 10-bedded dialysis facility.

With the setting up of the centre, patients mainly belonging to the low economic background will get a hassle free facility of dialysis and at a very marginal rate,” he said.

He also said that the move of the SDMC will help in facilitating patients living in SDMC area mainly Kalkaji as they will get a facility of dialysis in nearby locality.

SDMC Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti said that the civic body is committed to provide better services to citizens and the newly inaugurated dialysis centre at Poornima Sethi Multi Specialty Hospital will help to enhance medical services.

Bharti informed that the unit will be ultramodern dialysis machines with Japanese technology and German double pass RO to give ultrapure dialysis water ensuring high quality dialysis. The process will help in minimizing chances of infection in the patients undergoing dialysis, he said.