“Kidney Care at Home” launched at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

March 13, 2019

Healthy Soch

New Delhi, March 13, 2019: 

As part of World Kidney Day’2019 celebrations, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital has today launched “Kidney Care at Home” services. Under this programme, Institute of Renal Sciences will provide various homecare services such as:
– ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

– continous holter monitoring

– care of catheter, dressing, wound care

– Home sampling

– There will be dedicated staff to look after home peritoneal dialysis (CAPD & APD) and this APD machine will have software for monitoring therapy by the nephrologist.

– Home Hemodialysis services

*According to Dr. (Prof.) D.S. Rana, Chairperson (Department of Nephrology) & Chairman (Board of Management), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,* “Since chronic kidney disease runs in families especially in patients with diabetes, hypertension & various other diseases. We will have a package under which patients families will be screened so that kidney disease can be detected at early stage. Many lives can be saved by doing the screening of families”.

Another service launched on the occasion is addition of APHERSIS UNIT in the department of nephrology. This will have dedicated apharesis machines and will cater to various patients of ABO incompatable Kidney Transplant. Highly sensitized recepients with antibodies, patients of myasthenia gravis, LGB syndrome and vasculities. Patients from various parts of country are referred for plasma pharesis and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital is the largest centre for doing ABO incompatible Kidney Transplant in India. With dedicated apharesis Unit, the procedure can be done in a clean & hygienic environment in the hospital.

*According to Dr. (Prof.) A.K. Bhalla, Co-Chairperson & Director-Dialysis Unit (Department of Nephrology), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,* “We are amongst the pioneer to start ABO compatible organ transplants. Apart from many other diseases, dedicated APHERSIS further will boost the family of ABO compatible transplants”.

 

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