NEW DELHI: South Delhi Municipal Corporation ( SDMC ) has proposed to provide subsidised dialysis facilities at select health centres, which was cleared by the standing committee on Thursday."Health facilities are visited by the poorest patients. Those with limited means find it difficult to meet such expenditure, especially with conditions like chronic kidney failure where patients require dialysis two to three times a week as a single procedure costs around Rs 2,500. Government facilities are overcrowded. Therefore, we are planning to provide this new facility," Shikha Rai, standing committee chairman, said.The dialysis centres would come up at five places - PSMS Hospital Kalkaji, Fateh Pur Beri, Mehrauli , Ghuman Hera and Uttam Nagar - where the facility would cost around Rs 1,200, as compared to private hospitals Rs 4,000, the proposal stated. Each centre would have four machines and cater to four patients daily. The machines would be installed under public-private partnership.

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