Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 31: Depa-rtment of Nephrology, Super Specialty Hospital Jammu, today organized an annual appraisal and motivational seminar for the staff and residents of dialysis unit.
HoD Nephrology, Dr SK Bali, in his motivation lecture said that the staff of the unit is working tirelessly for the critical patients suffering from kidney diseases and admitted in Nephrology unit.
“As the patients of renal failure have severe organ dysfunction in addition to psychological problems due to chronic nature of the disease, they require close monitoring and sympathetic approach of the treating staff”, he said adding that the department is working day and night in the service of the patients.
He further said that the department is expanding its infrastructure to provide better service to the patients. “With the installation of 20 haemodialysis machines including 7 sled machines in the department, the quality of services has been improved a lot”, he said and added that the department is looking forward to add more infrastructure to it.
Giving details about the functioning of the department, Dr Surinder Singh Sodhi, said that a total of 826 haemodialysis and 11 CAPD were done in 2013, which raised to 3549 haemodialysis and 29 CAPD in 2014 and in this year 4209 haemodialysis and 35 CAPD were done.
He added that the dialysis department caters to OPD and 3323 patients were registered in 2014 and 4437 patients were registered in 2015.
In the end, staff and residents were felicitated by the HO. They were also presented with souvenirs.
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