Even as questions are being raised in many quarters over the privatisation of the top two floors of the South Goa district hospital, Mumbai-based Ms Apex Kidney Care Pvt Ltd appears all set to start a dialysis centre in the district hospital.
Along with three other Health centres at Bicholim, Dharbandora and Canacona, Apex Kidney Care Pvt Ltd has been granted approval to set up 12 beds at the South Goa district hospital to carry dialysis at the rate of Rs 996 per cycle of hemodialysis.
Inquires have revealed that the dialysis centre to be run by the Mumbai-based agency will be set up on the third floor of the South Goa district hospital.
After the Under Secretary (Health) Swati A Dalvi wrote a letter to the Director of Health Services dated July 24 last on the question of providing dialysis facility at various under the Directorate of Health services, representatives of the Mumbai-based agency are believed to have descended at the South district hospital, which has not seen full-commissioning till date.
The Under Secretary’s letter to the Director of Health Services had conveyed the approval of the government for starting of the dialysis centre at the four centres from Ms Apex Kidney Care Pvt Ltd, Mumbai @ 996 per cycle cost of hemodialysis.
Inquiries revealed that the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) had made the provision of dialysis unit in the district hospital as per the design. Sources in the know pointed out that the agency has put in place the reverse osmosis (RO) system in place in the district hospital premises.
“As per the approval granted by the government, the contractor had come to the district hospital to set up the infrastructure. He was told that there’s already a RO system is already put in place by the GSIDC”, a health official pointed out, adding that the contractor will now have to test the water to conform the parameters.
