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One among the many acclaimed philanthropic dream projects of Sri Satya Sai Orphanage Trust is Free Dialysis Centre, a pioneering venture beneficial to the most deserving poor kidney patients.The highlights of the said projects are:
- Navajeevanam Free Dialysis Centre is to help those under privileged poor individuals as well as their dependends who are running from pillar to post to meet the expenses incurred to undergo treatment and as well as to take care of welfare of the family with their meadre income.
- 25 poor and most deserving patients are under-going life-long treatment under Navajeevanam Free Dialysis Centre-Ernakulam
- More than 700 Patients are in the waiting list
- Sri Sathya Sai Orphanage Trust intends to help the family of the patients with regard to the education of their children and treatment of the old-aged who are their dependent.
- The huge expenses for all these programmes are met through donations recived from good hearted people.
- Sri Therambil Ramakrishnan, the then Speaker of Kerala Legislative Assebly inaugrurated the project on %th March 2006 at Ernakulam.
- The Second phase of the project was launched in the same year and it was inaugurated by the President of India, His Excellency Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on 19th December 2006
- Sri Satya Sai Orphanage Trust envisages Dialysis Centre in each and every district of Kerala.
- Kollam witnessed the opening of a centre on 25th November 2007. This was inaugurated by Sri Poyilakkada P.Bhrathan Pillai (Chairman, Cashew Exports Promotion Council of India, Cochin).
- Thiruvananthapuram Dialyis Centre was inaugrated by His Excellency, The Governor of Kerala Shri. R.L.Bhatia on !st January 2008.
The Trust had started a new project to provide Free Dialysis to poor patients ailing from Kidney related disorders.This will be a welcome relief to the poor from all walks of life irrespective of caste, creed, religions. This pioneering venture is one of its kind in the whole Nation.
About Dialysis
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Dialysis is a medical process through which a person's blood is cleansed of the toxins the kidneys normally would flush out. It is generally used when a person's kidneys no longer function properly. This can be a result of congenital kidney disease, long-term diabetes, high blood pressure or other conditions. |
Dialysis may be either temporary or permanent, depending on the person. If a dialysis is patient is waiting on a kidney transplant, the procedure may be temporary. However, if the patient is not a good transplant candidate, or a transplant would not alleviate the condition, dialysis may be a life-long routine.
There are two main kinds of dialysis used: peritoneal and hemodialysis.
Peritoneal dialysis can be done in the home, by the patient, either alone or with a helper.
Hemodialysis is probably the procedure that most people are familiar with. This procedure is performed at a hospital or dialysis centre. The patient is hooked up, via a tube in the veins, to a machine that circulates his blood through a machine, through semi permeable filters that take out the toxins in the blood. The procedure usually takes three to four hours.
While dialysis may be a life- saving procedure, it is not complete unless the patients follows a specialized diet that is higher in protein and lower in phosphorus and potassium, since these minerals tend to build up quickly in the blood. They must also limit their fluid intake, since dialysis'only removes so much water from the patients body. Infection is also an ever-present specter, since a permanent access point must be created in the body for either dialysis procedure.There are stories of people who have survived many years on dialysis. Researchers are working to improve dialysis procedures and survival rates. Most doctors will tell a patient that the best treatment is to prevent kidney damage.
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