Kidney patients deprived of dialysis service at Karnali Academy of Health Sciences

Patients from remote areas are forced to go health institutions in Surkhet, Nepalgunj, Kathmandu or elsewhere for the service and some die in lack of timely treatment.

Dharma BK, a 40-year-old man from ward 7 of Mudkechula Rural Municipality in Dolpa, was rushed to Jumla-based Karnali Academy of Health Sciences on January 8 after he fell seriously ill. The doctors advised him to undergo an immediate dialysis. The patient from the impoverished Dalit community was left in the lurch as the dialysis service had been stopped at the academy for over a year.